Rating: 
Summary: A fairly entertaining, but joyless blockbuster
Review: After more than three years, Spielberg made a less than impressive return to directing with "The Lost World". I must admit that I don't consider the original "Jurassic Park" as one of the best films of the director. It had great setpieces, extremely effective chills and it was clearly one of the best of its kind. Yet, the film was rather joylessly realized and this was visible in the final product. This feeling is even more evident in the sequel. The characters in this one are not only flat, like in the original, they sometimes succumb to sillyness. The always excellent Pete Postlethwaite is one of the rare exceptions. It seems that the director's attitude to the material was more cynical than passionate. Some reviewers considered that an improvement, but I found the early entertainments of Steven Spielberg so fantastic and magical, because you had the feeling that the director believed strongly in his material. This was the main difference between Spielberg and the others, and this made his films more than just soulless theme-park-rides. It's not that "The Lost World" doesn't have its moments. Some of the action scenes are superbly realized and I liked Janusz Kaminski's photography, but it is almost impossible to walk out of this film without the feeling, that this is a movie the world did not need.
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Summary: Best visual, worst plot.
Review: Unbelievable mixture of the best dinosaur visuals on earth and totally pointless, unconvincing plot even worse than "One Million Years B.C." Hunters capture living dinosaurs for a dino-zoo. Disgusting eco-terrorists release them for paper thin sympathy and invite blood rain. Dozens of hunters and a fellow of eco-terrorists are killed and almost nobody points that silliness. Those dinosaurs are FAR from nature or ecology. They are biohazard by genetics. Who on earth tries to protect REAL nature of Costa Rica? If you don't care anything of the story, this is the greatest show ever. If you are cynical enough to laugh a big waste of fabulous talents and vast budget, this is an enjoyable feature. But if you are naive enough to believe that talented people will always do right, avoid this at any cost.
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Summary: JURASSIC BOMB: THE LOST MOVIE
Review: Unbeliavable someone can give this pile of garbage a five-star rating! To show my point of view, I suggest something to you all: why don't you have a private and informal talk with Spielberg himself and ask his real opinion about this motion picture...? YOu'll probably hear him say that this is one of the worst he has ever done, that he did it only because of the money (the studio pressure was too much) and that he never watched the movie once after he finished it.
Rating: 
Summary: The Lost World; Jurassic Park
Review: The famous and vividly entertaining 1993 release "Jurassic Park" was a masterpiece from the great director by the name of Steven Spielberg and author Michael Crichton. After novelist Michael Crichton came up with a book sequel (the novel is a piece of junk compared to the movie, which is much better) to his famous hit "Jurassic Park", Spielberg made a movie version that might have changed the world forever. Jeff Goldblum (returning from his role in the original), Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn, Pete Postelewaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Schiff, Richard Attenborough (returning to his role from the original) and more star in a heart-gripping adventure on a small unknown island off the coast of Costa Rica... where something has survived.......... Years after the horrifying accident on the island of Isla Nublar, mathematician Ian Malcolm (Goldblum) is sent to Isla Sorna on a supposed-to-be research expedition with electronics specialist Eddie Carr (Schiff) and photographer Nick van Owen (Vaughn) to look for his biologist girlfriend Sarah Harding (Moore). But when he realizes his daughter Kelly has sneaked onboard their cargo and is now on the island with them... and the terrifying dinosaurs from "Jurassic Park". Just as he has called in to get someone to come and take them off the island, they realize they're not alone, but another team, this time led by new the InGen president, the greedy Peter Ludlow (Howard), John Hammond's nephew, and big game hunter Roland Tembo (Postelewaite), who attempt to capture the dinosaur specimens there and take them back to the United States in a new park for money. But when the dinosaurs turn hasty, the new mission is not to study the dinosaurs nor to capture them but to work together and get off the island... in one piece. Then Ludlow steps in, and takes a tyrannosaur specimen and its offspring to California. Big mistake. Now Malcolm and Harding must tranquilize the rex that has wreaked havoc on the city. With appearances by Peter Stormare ("Fargo", later starred in "Armageddon") as Dieter Stark (ends up getting devoured by a pack of hungry little compys). A masterpiece very comparible to the original film and another outstanding piece of work. I first saw it in the theatre, and have seen it many other times after that, and this one's a must-see.
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Summary: Crass Commercialism
Review: Good special effects. However, to this reader, it is blatently obvious that Michael Crichton's novel, The Lost World, lays ground work for Spielberg's version of Jurassic Park. The contrived novel attempts to repair Spielberg's mistelling of the original novel with a few threads relating to the real terror in the original novel: human greed -- there is a humorous demise in store for the mastermind of the original story's industrial epionage. Sadly, Steven Spielberg again reduces Michael Crichton's attempt to tell a story in favor of Spielberg's version of Godzilla.
Rating:
Summary: killer effects
Review: This movie was truly commensurate with the original. So often sequels are nothing more than producer greedy rip-offs. Movie makers should take note of their ethical duty to provide their public with quality and not specious quantity.
Rating: 
Summary: Could Be Better
Review: Like always, The Lost World can't compare to the original but it's not a bad sequal. Many of best characters from the original have been left out. Ian's daughter is a character that upset the story a little bit. It seems like she was added into the script and she doesn't fit. But the movie still has excellent action sequences and special effects. Spielberg does it again! Where is Jurassic Park 3?
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Summary: A fairly decent sequel!
Review: Personally when rating this movie it is difficult to rate it based upon its own merits. Being that this movie is a sequel to a blockbuster hit, it has a lot to live up to. However that all aside if this movie were to stand on its own it would make for a fairly good movie. Okay the characters do not have the depth of some other movies, it still does not make the film less entertaining. It is a great ride that Spielberg sends us on in this film that can leave you breathless in some parts. This is a great entertaining ride that makes for a great movie night. However that all aside I believe that the movie should have ended on the island. I will not say more. You know what I mean if you saw the movie. Otherwise a decent film.
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Summary: I disagree with all of you
Review: I think Lost World has a lot going for it. Just because it had a huge hype and little enough movie to meet it doesn't mean you can disreguard it as a good action/suspence film. I mean it's not perfect in any way, but still manages to entertain with non-stop action and special effects. My heart races every time I watch the scene with the van hanging over the cliff. So it didn't follow the book by every niche and cranny. Big deal. What movie does? Perhaps there is a reason for this and will be answered by a grand finale to make a famous Spielberg trilogy. The movie is good with rights. It has convincing enemys(the T-Rex hunter was brilliant), great moments of suspence(the boat crashing into the shore of onlookers), and an overall entertaining appeal. This is ten times more anything than the first except originality. The fact that some of you tried to compare it to Godzilla just makes me want to cry because Godzilla was the victim of an overhyped but also bad movie in general. I recommend you at least rent this if you haven't seen it or were disappointed by it in the theatres(who knows, you might have gotten over the fact that you felt it was overhyped).
Rating: 
Summary: Nem sempre é possível repetir a dose
Review: The Lost World - O Mundo Perdido - segue-se ao Jurassic Park. Deixando de lado o aspecto tecnológico não sobra nada na fita. As duas estrelas são atribuídas exclusivamente pela tecnologia empregada. Nada mais.
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