Weak As Hell

Rating: 4/10 (26 September 2011)

Another spectacular fail by the master of hit-and-miss movies. This one though is harder to stomach than most. The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Just how did he manage to get this so wrong?
The back-up of potential this film had is unreal; A mega hit, fun, albeit flawed first instalment, a terrific source novel, huge budget and crack technical teams to name a few. And yet what is the end result? An inexplicably black kid (because doesn't there HAVE to be a kid in these films) performing a gymnastics routine before somehow kicking an 800lb dinosaur flying 20ft through a wall.
It's a pity some money wasn't spent on a decent script writer. How anyone actually green-lit this script is beyond me. The stupidity of the characters just goes on and on here. None of the main players thinks to bring a real gun. The Julianne Moore character makes a speech about "don't interfere with the animals", but only before marching up to a family of stegosaurs to pet the baby, then later, actually bringing the injured baby Rex into their trailer. I could go on, but there are far too many ridiculous, stupid things to list.
I'm giving this 4 stars only for the skill of the effects guys (the dinosaurs themselves look great), and for some nice scenery which was well photographed. Otherwise a major let-down.