"Hang on. This is going to be bad."

Rating: 2/10 (13 June 2000)

When I saw this movie a couple years ago, I couldn't believe that Michael Crichton would write that kind of crap. After reading the book, I now know that he didn't. The screenplay was built around a framework consisting of a handful of small details from the book. There's an island full of dinosaurs, two groups of people go there, they play around with customized vehicles, and then everything goes wrong and people get eaten. A total of three characters from the book are in the movie and two of the interesting quotes were based on quotes that Crichton wrote. The only major scene that came close to doing the book justice was the tyrannosaur attack scene. Everything else was pure Hollywood nonsense. I can't believe there's even speculation about making another one.