Underrated to the core

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2018)

This film is similar to the original Jurassic Park, but introduces some much darker, scarier themes, and the highest death toll in any Jurassic Park film as of now, though this may change with the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
This movie had more dinosaurs than the original, introducing the Stegosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Mammenchisaurus, and Compsognathus, as well as finally giving the Parasaurolophus and Triceratops properly exciting scenes.
It's the only movie in the franchise to properly portray herbivores as dangerous animals, with Sarah Harding being attacked by Stegosaurus, a rampaging triceratops destroying a camp, etc. And the carnivore scenes were a lot of fun, particularly the worker village with the raptors.
Some people don't like this film because it focused too much on the horror element, and not the wonder and beauty seen in the first movie. I say this makes it more realistic, a properly accurate portrayal of what would happen should the dinosaurs return.
The deaths were gory, memorable, and creative, with my two faves being Dieter Stark's demise by Compsognathus, and Eddie Carr being torn in half by the T-Rex parents.
A great movie that just barely falls short of the bar set by it's predecessor.