Expect to be disappointed! Big budget B-movie.

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2013)

AUDIENCE: - Jr. High - High School kids and people who prefer not to think while watching a movie.
RIYL : - B-movies with simple, mindless action

Michael Bay movies

You have to know that sequels to blockbusters rarely live up to the original.
That being said, The Lost World : Jurassic Park (1997), the second movie in the Jurassic Park series is a complete step back for the franchise.
I did enjoy the first movie, Jurassic Park (1993) - rated a 7 /10.
Disappointing movie which should be avoided by most movie lovers.
PLOT: Like watching a teen slasher movie, you sit and wonder why the characters are so god-damn stupid in this movie. Too many plot holes to count, utter garbage.
DIALOG: Seemed very unnatural for the situations encountered. The dry, dead pan delivery of Goldblum quips is terrible.

I was bothered by the total unrealistic way the characters behaved, and impossibility of character actions. (Sure, Julianne Moore's character can run carrying a 150 pound baby dinosaur in her arms like a bread loaf)

The suspension of disbelief is broken by sloppy directing and poor writing.

WORST SCENE: < 80 lb. pre-teen girl gymnast swing kicks a Raptor through a second story window to be impaled below.
BEST SCENE: Jeff Goldblum, running from a raptor, opens a door and runs into a small building, raptor jumps through a window into the building, Goldblum hastily opens door again and exits the building. Goldblum was PERFECT in this scene. His expressions were fantastic, it was very funny.

One of the protagonists (played by Vince Vaughn) is a conservationist/ eco-terrorist whose deliberate actions causes the deaths of most of the characters in the movie. It bothered me that he was NOT portrayed as a villain or at the least a misguided fool. He is not held accountable for his actions.

I wish overt political messages could be kept out of more movies.

If you are a PETA lover then maybe you think it is just that a hunter who shocks a small dinosaur to get the animal to leave deserves to be painfully killed by a large pack of the same dinosaurs later. It bothers me that the movie masses are supposed to feel his death is vindication.
The movie can provide simple escapist action to young viewers and others who do not like to think while watching movies.
ACTORS:
I thought the acting fine.
Jeff Goldblum continues to seem out of place and unnatural in an action role. (Independence Day (1996) is another huge stinker that he helped bury.) He should stick to Wes Anderson type films.