it could be great only if it wasn't really bad

Rating: 3/10 (6 August 2006)

"The Lost World: Jurassic Park" is a film that had the potential to be great, but for some reason turned out to be really bad. Here is why: Dr. Ian Malcolm's girlfriend Dr. Sarah Harding went to the island without warning the good doctor even knowing what happened there (not to mention the coincidence of the Dr. Ian having a girlfriend related to the Jurassic Park subject); it's ridiculous that Dr. Ian's daughter could have been hidden in the RV that long without no one knowing; it's stupid how the characters say what they do just for the audience interest (Nick Van Owen is the garage and Dr. Sarah Harding, when she appears in the island); they where so well equipped that not even the radio worked; they had only one dart rifle (a vital protection instrument in a supposedly hostile environment); Eddie Carr is one of the stupidest characters in film history and he didn't knew nothing about field operations (his job) and even the way he died was stupid; what do you call to a bunch of people that are about to die, ask for burgers and think that that is normal?; is it normal when a group of mercenaries switches to commando mode trough a dinosaur stampede (or even an animal stampede? for that matter); is it normal to be listening to Mexican music when you are being hunted by killing dinosaurs?; is it normal that a super cargo ship can go from a Costa Rica island trough the North Pacific Ocean to a specific harbor in the US without someone running it (that's what I call a autopilot or maybe the dinosaurs that ate the crew jumped overboard because they didn't had a green card); and goes on and on... The point is that to be entertaining it doesn't need to be stupid and this was. It's completely not in the style of Steven Spielberg. I suppose even great directors have bad movies.