The perfect ad-on to a great series.

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2012)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is the sequel to the 1993 movie Jurassic Park which lives up to all expectations that anyone would have for this type of series. This leg of the trilogy touches more the adventure part than the science, and really demonstrates an "In your face" type adventure movie.
The effects for the dinosaurs in this one are just as gorgeous as the first movie, but seem a heck of a lot scarier. You've got the classic T- Rex's, which really give a significant edge to this film. The T-Rex's appearances in this one are a lot more stressful than the first, as they seem like a gigantic apocalyptic threat to the humans that are invading the island. One of my favourite T-Rex scenes was the one with the trailer falling over the cliff. Steven Spielberg really went to the next level with his dinosaurs creating something magical and unforgettable. They brought in newer dinosaurs that were less present in the first, but they also depraved others from screen time. The terrifying Dilophosaurus was not present, and even the Velociraptors which had great emphasis in the first were less present in the second film. But even without their presence throughout the movie, they had a few scenes in which they proved to be absolutely incredible. The field scene was a great asset as well as the abandoned control station. Despite some of these dinosaurs being absent, the movie still establishes a balance between adventure, fright, and dialogue.
The acting in this film was a bit of a shuffle from the first, the original characters like Sam Neill and Laura Dern were not present here. Therefore Jeff Goldblum took up the position of main character. Along with him, other known actors were added to the roster such as Vince Vaughn and Pete Postlethwaite. With all these significant actors, Spielberg was able to pull off a real adventurous rat race. Other than the dialogue being mediocre, the acting was spot on.
Apart from the acting, effects, and overall story being nice there's still a few things that are not 100% clear in this movie. For instance, near the end of the movie a boat crashes at the San Diego dock and inside contains a male T-Rex which evades from the boat and roams free in the city. Moments later, members of the cast go inside the boat to check out what happened to the crew, only to find their body parts all over the boat. It is very unclear as to how exactly this whole scene happened. It would've been nice to add one extra conversation, or scene determining how exactly this whole event occurred. Besides that, the downtown San Diego sequence was an incredible add on to the terror and stress that the dinosaurs had to offer. Although we've seen this before in a different movie, "King Kong", this has something totally different and I don't think it should be seen as a rip off. Other than that the movie is, from start to finish, a trip back to the 1993 memories of the first Jurassic Park. After 4 years, this is an excellent refresher of one of the greatest adventure trilogies ever made.
8/10 is my rating,not up to par with the first and I still had a few problems with the story line here and there, but definitely worth your buck, and two hours of your day. Now go and enjoy this underrated masterpiece.