Very decent sequel

Rating: 8/10 (27 October 2005)

I am probably one of the few who like this movie. First of all, I read the Best Seller novel before see the movie in theaters, so I had like an idea of how the movie would look like. I felt disappointed because many things were deleted (many attack scenes, gory moments, some more dinosaur deaths) and some annoying stuff was added (Ian's daughter, Nick Van Owen, Arliss Howard character...)But the movie has a scene of T Rexes attacking more vehicles (this dinosaurs have problems with the Car company or something, maybe they hate Mercedes) which is very cool, and has lots of tension, including that cliff-hanger moment when Sarah Harding is on a shattering glass (scary, creepy, bite your finger nails to the bone) Spielberg said that he would never make a sequel of his movies. Well, he didn't plan this, so he did his best on Lost World: Jurassic Park. Is not as good as the first movie, but well, we have some good things not related to the movie. The cinematography of Janusz Kaminski is just outstanding, with those forests and rain-forests full of mist ready to show their danger. The score composed by John Williams is quite different, with more tribal sounds than elegant movements of violins and flutes like in the first movie, is a more pure, rough and finally WILD MUSIC. The special effects are better OK, we see the T Rex attacking some Japanese people like a Godzilla homage. And Jeff Goldblum expands Ian Malcolm to his most acid and ironic characterization, turning him into another Jurassic beast like the T Rex. And for the raptors? Well, let's say that they got stripes and orange skin, instead they grey and brownish colour. Not a good decision.