A sad excuse for a marketable film

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2002)

The book was far better. Of COURSE it was. you Cannot have a movie that competes with a book. By there very nature, Books are a more involved and complex medium. So, even though the book was better, I will have to let Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World, stand alone, on its own merits.
Suddenly my review drops five points. The Lost World is perhaps the most ridiculous excuse for a movie I have seen in my entire life, a travesty and an insult to science fiction lovers everywhere. the plot is hackneyed, with several characters acting seemingly randomly in order to bring around the next "twist." But perhaps the worst part of this already abysmal movie is its "paint by numbers" feel.
Within every scene in which someone would die, the Velociraptor/Compy/T-rex would take them behind the /Waterfall/Log/Sign and thin watery blood would Drip off its teeth/flow down the river/Splash through the water. Every action sequence is the same, and every dialogue completely predictable.
This movie was depressing in its make-up, an obvious plea for money by exploiting an already milked concept. Avoid it. At all costs. And if you can't, or didn't... then I feel your pain