A lot of fun

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2020)

I'm revisiting the Jurassic Park movies. I'vent seen them since I was 5 or 6 (about 15 years ago) so I'm basically seen them for the first time, and knowing what I know, I went to this movie didn't expecting much, knowing people don't like this one nearly as much as the first. But overall, I had fun with it, and my family did as well.
At first, I thought it would suffer from the element of "man, we didn't have as much Dinos in the first one, we have to fill this one with Dinos". And sure, this movie has way more Dinos all throughout when you compare to the first one, and mostly for the first 30/40 minutes of it, I thought the CGI was somehow worst than the first one. However, after the T-Rex appears, I thought the movie had some great moments. I love the animatronics they used here, the T-Rex almost never seen like they are CGI, like the first one, but still, here we have way more scenes with the T-Rex than in the first one. The T-Rex baby is also great!
We get some great Ian moments, some great scenes, like the Velociraptors in the fields, the T-Rex splitting a guy in half, Juliane Moore's character falling in a glass almost breaking in one of the most suspenseful scenes I've seen in a while, etc etc. I think it could definitely have had 15ish minutes less than it ended up having, and overall, the characters are way dumber here when compared to the first. But still, when you compare with a movie like Jurassic World 2 (again, "we have to come back to the Island, for... some reason" story), I had way more fun watching The Lost World (and it's 20 years older).
One thing I will say tho, for some reason, I didn't like the score here as much as I liked the first one's. I actually went and looked afterwards, if it was really John Williams that did it, and... it was. Idk tho, I found it oddly different from the first one, and not nearly as impactful when we most needed it to be.
I truly didn't care for any characters that weren't Ian tho, and that's probably a downside. The finale is a bit... unnecessary I would say (and definitely foreshadowing what came next), even thought I loved the Dino in the city scenes. The chase, and almost every aspect of the scene is well made, and entertaning, is just... rushed, idk. I hope they can get this right in JW3 (I haven't seen JP3 yet, but since everyone hates it, I'm not with high expectations).
The gymnastic scene? Sure, it's sooo dumb lol. I laugh when I saw it. It's probably the dumbest thing in the whole film.
Overall tho, I think the movie is a lot of fun, I have some minor issues with the first minutes and the setup of it all, some parts are really predictable, the villains are... of course, just bad cause... reasons. But it's fine. More than 20 years later, the movie holds up, and aged well, has some fun stuff and iconic scenes, and of course, I love Jeff Goldblum in it.
Obs: That final shot is insanely good, it's probably the first day light scene, in both movies, that the CGI is great, and even today, seems as real as you could get from most movies (but 20 years older).
6,5/10