Released in 1997 has a sequel to the successful Jurassic Park, it was directed by the very same Steven Spielberg and judging by the production of the film it seemed like a match made in heaven, this could have been an excellent sequel... but it wasn't really and the audiences reaction can give you a quick general idea.
The story fallows Dr. Ian Malcolm; played by Jeff Goldblum, 4 years after the events of Jurassic Park, he is summoned by John Hammond who wants him to travel to "Isla Sorna" to help the researchers document the dinosaurs on a natural wild environment, he initially declines but later accepts after knowing his girlfriend, Sarah Harding, is already there. More happens after they reach the island, there is a group who wants to capture live dinos to bring them to civilization... blahblahblah... it looses focus very early on and you are just gonna wonder when are people going to be eaten. In the first movie the topic was the dangers of altering nature, but here is just men hunts and hurts animals... this topic is so overused (then and now) that it sticks out like a sour thumb, specially when you know that those "poor animals" in the movie are GENETIC LAB MONSTERS created with zero knowledge of how they might react to the present!
The characters this time are less relatable because the movie doesn't present them like the ones from the first movie, we don´t see their humanity thus we don´t feel attached to their survival struggle; I ain´t gonna act like the original film had the greatest characters ever in a movie but at least they were characters! in Lost World mostly are just filler and is easy to depict that judging by the amount of human characters compared to the first film.
The dinosaurs are really cool to watch however, some are very clearly CGI but others are quite cool to see, including the way they are shot in film, design and animated... I particularly love the T-Rex chase later in the movie, it was well introduced and last long enough to make it fun to watch. In case you haven´t notice, I think the action scenes here are great in almost every way... it lacks slightly compared to the first movie but it still a highlight.
Lost Word is an under watered sequel to the original film, but is still a good kind of sequel, I find hard to hate something that obviously had effort put into it... it lacks the soul of the franchise with a men vs nature topic that just doesn't fit in any way, but it´s still a fun movie thanks to it´s "larger than live" scale, this is one movie I still recommend even if it isn't better than it´s far superior predecessor.
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