This film even has a technological advantage over the others. Its dinosaur models are still more lifelike than those of its immediate predecessor and far better than those of King Kong . But Steven Spielberg, the same director who made such superb pictures as Schindler's List , is careless here and fritters away the advantages these models give him. In The Lost World these wonderful dinosaurs appear only briefly and the scenes in which they do appear are poorly conceived. Other problems further compromise our suspension of belief.
Dinosaurs appear and disappear at the director's fancy.
A ship's crew is killed by a dinosaur that never got out of its cage. Jeff Goldblum, assigned all the one-liners, mangles every one. And the screen is so strewn with name brand products that you begin to feel you are watching TV commercials. Thrillers aren't supposed to be great art but this is a big budget film made by a respected director.