It Still Keeps You on the Edge of Your Feet

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2008)

"Jurassic Park" was a groundbreaking endeavor that featured cloned dinosaurs running amok on an island paradise, terrorizing a group of scientists. Steven Spielberg returns to his dinosaur horror with a new group of scientists including Ian Malcolm from "Jurassic Park" (Jeff Goldblum) and Julianne Moore as his quirky paleontologist girlfriend Sarah. They find themselves trapped on Isla Sorna, "Site B", where it turns out the dinosaurs were being cloned before being shipped off to the park on Isla Nublar.
In the few years since the disaster at Jurassic Park, the dinosaur wildlife on Isla Sorna has flourished and there is an abundance of the fascinating creatures everywhere. It's all good until the carnivores begin trying to eat the scientists, again. The movie is inappropriately long and it tends to drag save for the tense action sequences, but Steven Spielberg and the CGI wizards and magicians at Stan Winston studios have really upped the ante on the special effects. The dinosaurs are amazing and scarier than ever. Overall "The Lost World" doesn't live up to "Jurassic Park" simply because the novelty has been lost and Steven Spielberg really hams up the drama and keeps the movie running far past a point where our attention spans give up.
Although the impact is still truly exciting, "The Lost World" fails to capture the ingenuity of the first, resulting in a B movie with grade A production values, just barely passing for an edge of your seat Spielberg classic thriller that still manages to dish out the goods enough for a worthy DVD purchase.