Something has survived......

Rating: 7/10 (24 September 2018)

The first movie and the novel it was based on were masterpieces of film and literature.
Sadly the same can not be said for the second film. This is one example of where the movie is actually better then the novel.
The Lost World by Michael Crichton was a good novel but nowhere near as exciting or as adventurous as the original.
The movie sequel improves it, but not by much. Actors such as Jeff Goldblum (who is always great), Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn and Pete Postlewaite all put on amazing performances. But the rest of the movie drags on in so many places. The movie could have been cut in sequences and made shorter as it would have allowed the pace to continue on more.
The special effects were amazing as were some of the stunt sequences involved. As cool as it was to see the T-Rex play havoc in San Diego at the end, it was not really needed. They could have ended it a different way back in the island.
Steven Spielberg had even gone on record saying this was an inferior film to the original. And he is right. But the movie is still entertaining, worth a watch and made us believe in dinosaurs again