Nice Try, Steven Spielberg, But Why Don't We Just Forget 1997 Happened to You

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2009)

Oy vey, 1997 was a bad year for Steven Spielberg.
Much like in 1993, when Spielberg had two movies circulating movie theatres, one a prestige film with Oscar written all over it ("Schindler's List") and the other one of his fun house rides ("Jurassic Park"), 1997 saw the release of "Amistad" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park." However, "Amistad" happened to be perhaps the worst movie he ever made, with "The Lost World" a close second.
He clearly should have stopped while he was ahead, because while the visual effects in this sequel to his original dinosaur movie are just as good, everything else is abysmally worse.
Grade: F