A Great Director, a poor adaptation.

Rating: 7/10 (9 August 1999)

In my mind, Steven Spielberg can do no wrong. However, the people behind the scenes forking over the money for movies can do a lot of wrong. If anyone had read the book this movie is loosely based off of(I'm being very kind), they would know that this movie hardly resembled what Michael Crichton wrote. I also have to question how much input he had into this movie. Let's face it, the first two thirds of this movie were okay, but when they took it to San Diego and turned it into a Godzilla movie, it ran itself directly into the ground. If they had given it another name it would have been a fun movie. Other that all that I would like to say the cast did a wonderful job. Jeff Goldblum has always been one of my favorites and he is the true Ian Malcolm. Michael Crichton must have used Jeff as his model when he wrote the character. All and all I gave this movie a decent rating, disregarding any connection between the book and the movie.