Big budget, big mistake

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 1998)

Credit the previews, They made me think this movie was going to kick ass. Whoops. I left the theater wanting my $6.50 back. This movie has the feel and pacing of something thrown together over a vacation to rack up some bucks. It hardly seems like a Spielberg film at all. The action sequences were pretty dull and a little too long. After five plus minutes of the "Car over the cliff" sequence, I was really getting restless. The San Diego sequence was completely unwarranted and reeked of something tacked on at the last minute. The only good part was the death of the dog. I like dogs as much as the next person, but this is payback for the manipulative dog tactics of "Volcano", "Dante's Peak", "Twister", and "Independence Day". Just about every actor was wasted in this movie, with the possible exception of Pete Postlethwaite and Jeff Goldblum. Sadly even these characters can't rise above a completely moronic script. And while I'm on the subject, why wouldn't an amimal expert realize that bringing a wounded baby into a trailer is just asking for a slow death. It's the abundence of stupid coincidences like this that make Lost World a lost cause.