More Dinosaurs

Rating: 7/10 (18 April 2018)

Spielberg always aims high, very high. His fault, I suppose, as a filmmaker, is trying to make the biggest movies possible, so when they aren't perfect, it shows. The Lost World is a terrific sequel to Jurassic Park, and ties in with the classic rather well in terms of plot and characters, but for a movie chalk full of enormous computer dinosaurs, you feel like there is something missing, and honestly, I'm not sure what it is.
Maybe the movie moves too quickly from peace and calm to disaster. Jurassic Park builds up to the carnage gradually enough that it seems more believable and therefore, more terrifying. Maybe The Lost World simply asks you to believe that all the monsters are inches away from destroying the island and not question the logic behind it. Oh well. It's still a cool movie and Jeff Goldblum is just terrific in it, but it doesn't quite live up to the original.