Political Correctness gone amok...

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 2003)

I had to sit through this film recently with an acquaintance and his family. However, just after the scene where the Vince Vaughn releases the dinosaurs to save them from the "evil" corporate hunters, the bile arising within me became too unbearable and I had to go outside and cool off by contemplating the mountains.
For all the action, special effects, etc., the not-too-subtle anti-corporation and hunting messages really ruin what could have been a fairly if not thoroughly enjoyable movie. The sheer lunacy of bringing a wounded baby Rex back to a trailer that was parked in an obviously bad location (don't naturalists know anything about camouflage?!) still gives me a headache.
I would have loved to have seen the Vaughn character just sat on and smothered in the excrement of a stegasaur -- after having palmed the shells of Pete Postelwaite's shotgun. That(!) would have been justice!
No hunter or mercenary -- particularly on dangerous and unfamiliar ground -- is going to go off to urinate without *confirming* that others in his group know. Even then, he would *never* go beyond visual range of the rest area. But, hey, in this film, the hunters are enemies of nature and in the eyes of the producer and writes justly provide a main course for the T-Rex and velociraptors.
Everyone knows that Californians can be thoroughly self absorbed, but a T-Rex making it from the San Diego docks to a residential neighborhood unnoticed? Please!!!
And the ending with "nature" in the form of the T-Rex devouring the "evil" (or at the very least uncaring) corporate businessman is pure Political Correctness gone mad...
Lost World was such an infuriating disappointment, I haven't even bothered to see JP3...