It's damn good!

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 1999)

This movie's taken a fair old bashing for the 'would be' critics that plague the internet movie database, and in general most internet movie review sites. What you seem unable to understand is that this movie wasn't made to raise any debate or anything...it was made to enjoy..and enjoy it most people did. Who else but Speilberg could create such classic scenes as the raptor tracks appearing in the long grass behind the humans, or the glass cracking under Julianne Moore? Jurassic park was made to show the immorality of genetic breeding and cloning as well as showing of ILM's dominance in the special effects world. But while it achieved this, it was lacking in the action department. Cue the lost world. This movie is meant to be up on action and suspense and down on the moral lectures. And when you look at its competition (i.e. Godzilla) it's probably the best in its field. Sure it may be a little violent for kids, and in the theatre I was in when I first saw it, most were covering their eyes and gasping for breath, but at the end, those who were over 4 foot tall and not in a state of shock gave the movie a round of applause for the simple reason that they wanted a holiday flick which would entertain, and the lost world would have been among the best for the job.
If you think you can get out there and create a better movie, then go to film school, and I'm sure you'll see the kind of pressure Mr.Speilberg was under to make this movie. Yet he still came out with a top rate crowd pleaser while maintaining a message and making box office history. I'm not sure about a third one, but this was definitely a worthy sequel.