Great effect fail to make up for total lack of story

Rating: 5/10 (12 October 2001)

Steven Spielberg seems to have forgotten everything about making movies when he directed this one.
Ok, the dino's are great, they move realisticly and there are a lot more of them around this time, but someone forgot to put an actual story in the movie. The first Jurassic Park movie took its time to build tension and explain a lot about dinosaurs. This time, the explanation is minimal and the movie jumps almost right into the action. After that, it's just a series of action scenes in which a lot of people get eaten.
The point is, you can tell from beforehand which people will survive, and you don't care about the characters that do get killed because they have no depth at all, you usually don't even know their name. On top of that, a lot scenes seem to have been omitted from the movie, as their is often no cohesion between the scenes, and the 'story' jumps in all directions, including a totally unnecessary trip to L.A.
To sum it up: this movie is incredibly shallow and lacks any kind of involvement. It's a disgrace to Steven Spielberg.