Not as good as the original , but another brilliant Spielberg movie in it's own right.

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2020)

Synopsis: Sequel to the most popular movie of its time, The Lost World: Jurassic Park is an action-packed thriller, with
brilliant character development and a light seasoning of human drama and complete with breathtaking visual effects;
this movie is definitely Spielberg at his best.
I know that this film has met with a lot of criticism, but I'll tell you, this is the most underrated film I've ever seen.
Spielberg , as usual, is a master at his art , and David Koepp's screenplay for the first two acts is near flawless. Is it as
good as the first film? No, obviously not. But it's a brilliant stand-alone film. Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm is my outright
favourite. Pete Posthlewaite's role as big-game hunter Roland Tembo is marvelous. It is one my favourite characters of
all time. I like it just as much, if not better than Robert Muldoon from the first film. Steven Spielberg's character building
qualities are far superior to the first film. The thing in this film that we missed in the recent installments of the franchise
is the unpredictability of the plot and the tension-building. Eddie Carr, the person who saves our protagonists from the
Rex family; who could've thought he'd die? Talking of this, the trailer-over-the-cliff scene is SO beautifully shot! It's
extremely suspenseful and one of Spielberg's most engrossing sequences. Julianne Moore and Vince Vaughn are pretty
good at their roles. Stan Winston's animatronics are very lifelike and much more fluid than the first one. The team of
digital magicians at ILM is amazing. The entire T-Rex in San Diego sequence is part animatronic and part CGI, and you
can't tell them apart. One of the most important aspects of the movie, John Williams' score is very innovative it is very
memorable and exciting and is on par with the first film's score. It has a melodic part, a little uncertainty part, and a
"torrid" climax , in Williams' own words.
Now for some of the flaws. The entire part of the story with Vanessa Lee Chester, who plays Malcolm's daughter, is extremely messy.
That is primarily because of the sequence where the girl kicks off a RAPTOR doing some gymnastics. That is nothing short of ridiculous.
Also, though we briefly get to know what happened to Malcolm after the events at the park, the drastic personality sea-
change seems out of place. The T-Rex in San Diego segment or the entire third act seems very tacked on; as if 20
minutes were just cut off the film. Another thing to ponder upon is that when the T-Rex enters San Diego , it should've
been confused amongst all the towering buildings and lights. But instead, it just starts terrorizing the city instantly.
If you own the Blu-Ray or DVD for this film, you'd get the deleted scenes. Surprisingly, the deleted scenes are also of
very good quality. In the one hour behind the scenes , producer Kathleen Kennedy (not very popular for making good
decisions) says that she didn't want the audience to be ahead of them in character development. So she got a scene that
eluded the lives of Roland Tembo and Ajay Sidhu cut out. It was a small café meeting in which Ajay asked Tembo to go
on this trip to capture some "big animals", to which Tembo obviously says no, saying he has every hunting trophy he
could ever want. It's really nice and honestly would've added a lot to the film. There are so many other scenes such as the boardroom scene were severed at the editor's chopping board and I think these would have seemingly filled the 'plotholes' that everyone nitpicks.
Oh , and now I'm thinkin' , that the San Diego sequence was really awesome . John Williams' disaster score was really
nice; it was very well directed , cinematography was great, and Jeff Goldblum's "Now you're Hammond" set up for
perfect redemption. Just all it needed, as I said, was a bit more transition to make a masterpiece.
Final Verdict: The Lost World is not nearly as good as the first film , but is a great movie in it of itself. Some scenes are
very intense and keep you at the edge of your seat. The Lost World is a greatly different movie from it's predecessor,
and I respect it for being that.
8.5/10; A+