Someone should have lost the movie

Rating: 3/10 (6 August 1999)

Is yet another scathing review of this film really needed? I could blame Michael Crichton for turning out the worst novel of his career, one so filled with bad plot twists, cardboard characters and hackneyed dialog as well as being confused about whether it's a sequel to the original novel (where both John Hammond and Ian Malcolm were killed) or the movie (where they both lived) that it certainly would be easy. However, screenwriter David Koepp decided to discard all but a few scenes from the book and concoct something equally inept on his own. I could blame him. I could blame Speilburg, perhaps the best director of his generation, for helming such a piece of sludge, designed merely to sell toys and lunchboxes. Casting blame his way goes without saying.
Ultimately however, blame for this waste of celluloid goes to every one of us nitwits who paid to see this and have let Universal know that we are cattle who will shower money on any dino drivel thrown at us.