O Spieberg, Where Did Thou Lose It

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2001)

The last time I saw this one for the second time, was an year ago, but this movie has been etched in my brain ever since I saw it for the first time.
Firstly, yes I read the book, not once not twice but I have lost count how many times, the first time TLW was released as a movie, I was so excited that I was one of the guys to watch on its first day of release. Man, did it suck or what, firstly, everyone agrees that a movie adapted from a book is difficult to make, but at least Spielberg could have been loyal to the book.
Well, as someone said "its his movie and he can do whatever he wants", then the final answer, the result will be as hotch-potch as TLW was. Alright, the characters of Richard Levine, Robert Thorne and the two teenagers who follow Ian Malcolm around, Lewis Dodgson and his Biosyn cronies are all missing from the movie, instead of them you deal with some out of the world characters like Pete Postlethwaite and Peter Stormare as big game hunters, Arliss Howard as the psycho nephew who takes over Ingen corp from Richard Attenborough and other rinky-dinky characters, who have nothing else to do but be Dino dinner. If that is not enough, he has Vince Vaughn playing the role of a photographer and Richard Schiff plays the role of Eddie Carr, Eddie in the book is more of a genius working under Thorne, but the character Eddie that the writers of TLW created is worth $0.00. Come on, could have been better than that.
Okay, I will move ahead of this, even with these characters TLW could have been better, if the none of these characters, except the main one's leave Isla Nublar alive, The ending ends with Goldblum, his daughter, Moore, Vaughn and Postlethwaite getting out of the island their lives intact.
The movie starts out well, keeps every one on the edge of their seats, then the big game hunters land to make the movie a little bit bad, but they start getting killed and then the movie takes an entire 180 with the humans capturing the Dino and to make it even more ridiculous bring them to civilization. That was the last straw for me.
I saw JP-3, two days ago, felt JP-3 should have been JP-2 and TLW should never have been made.
On a scale of 1-10, I rate TLW 2.