The Lost World: Jurassic Park

"Something has survived."

1997 2h 9m EN

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6.6

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6.6

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★6.6TMDB · 9,517🥫57%Rotten Tomatoes●59Metacritic★6.6IMDB · 473,902

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Synopsis

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Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

“Something has survived.”

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Cast

Jeff Goldblum
Ian Malcolm
Julianne Moore
Sarah Harding
Pete Postlethwaite
Roland Tembo
Arliss Howard
Peter Ludlow
Richard Attenborough
John Hammond
Vince Vaughn
Nick Van Owen
Vanessa Lee Chester
Kelly Curtis
Peter Stormare
Dieter Stark

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: David Koepp
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $73M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 8.5× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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29 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Jurassic Park Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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285+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steven Spielberg, shot by Janusz Kamiński. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Michael Kahn shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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The take

Steven Spielberg directs. Janusz Kamiński behind the camera. John Williams scores. Michael Kahn cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $73M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 8.5× over at the box office.
329 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Part of the "Jurassic Park Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5285+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Steven Spielberg, shot by Janusz Kamiński. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by John Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Michael Kahn shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore and Pete Postlethwaite carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Something has survived.".
11IMDB entry: tt0119567 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 22 themes, including "exotic island", "island", "velociraptor", "dna".
13Released under 30 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Original score: John Williams
Editing: Michael Kahn
Production design: Rick Carter
Makeup / hair: Karyn Huston
VFX supervisor: Dennis Muren
Sound: Gary Rydstrom
Stunt coordinator: M. James Arnett
Runtime: 129 min · 2h 9m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $73,000,000
Box office: $618,638,999
Return: 847% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes: 57% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 59/100
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 473,902 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 28 nominations total

Part of

Jurassic Park Collection

An American science fiction adventure film series based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The films center on the fictional Isla Nublar near Costa Rica in the Central American Pacific Coast, where a billionaire philanthropist and a small team of genetic scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs.

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Gimly2018-09-27
★ 4/10
If you loved the charismatic Doctor Ian Malcolm of the first film, then get ready for him to take centre stage, and immediately have every interesting character trait stripped away! Did the original have you believing dinosaurs walked the Earth with its seamless blend of practical effects and groundbreaking CGI? Too bad! That's gone too! Sense of wonder? Poof! Marvel as each and every actor phones it in over an absurdly bloated runtime in: Jurassic Park II! I mean, Jurassic Park II: The Lost World... I mean, The Lost World! I mean, The Lost World: Jurassic Park for some damn reason. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
John Chard2020-04-13
★ 7/10
Actually where you're going is the only place in the world where the geese chase you! The Lost World: Jurassic Park is directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted to screenplay by David Koepp from the novel written by Michael Crichton. It stars Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Richard Schiff, Peter Stormare, Vanessa Lee Chester, Arliss Howard and Harvey Jason. Music is scored by John Williams and cinematography by Janusz Kamiński. Four years on from the horrors of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, it transpires that there is a second dinosaur site on Isla Sornar. Dr. Ian Malcolm (Goldblum) is forced to head off to face the horrors once again when he learns that his paleontologist girlfriend, Sara Harding (Moore), is already on the island as a forerunner to a team John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is assembling to document the dinosaurs in their habitat. Once there, though, the problems soon arise, especially when a team from InGen arrive with other ideas about the dinosaurs on their minds. Given the massive success of Jurassic Park in 1993, a sequel was inevitable. What transpires is pretty much more of the same, it's very safe film making by Spielberg. Coming off of the emotional exertions of his last film, Schindler's List, few can deny that the director was entitled to wind down with The Lost World project, there was after all nothing safe about Schindler's, but although Jurassic 2 is a hugely enjoyable family blockbuster, a jazzy bit of hi-tech fun, it lacks the requisite brains to make it an inspiring sequel. Formula follows the same path, humans in peril on the island, with some added and new dinosaurs (double T-Rex a bonus), and then the "twist" in the narrative sees some monster peril come to San Diego, King Kong style, for the finale. There's inter fighting between the good dudes led by Malcolm and the bad guys led by the weasel Peter Ludlow (Howard) who is Hammond's conniving nephew and current head of InGen. Family issues also feature, of course since this is Spielberg after all, while the dangers of tampering with science message remains as strong as ever. Cast are ably led by a witty Goldblum, who is a reassuring presence carried over from the first film, and the tech-credits are as expected, very high. Some scenes soar, such as a sequence shot from under a pane of glass that starts to crack under the weight of a character, others not so, such as having Malcolm's teenage daughter turn into Nadia Comăneci for one credulity stretching scene. But all told it's an honest blockbuster purely aimed at the target audience who helped to see it make over $600 million in profit. Safe often pays you see, and as sequels go it's one of the better ones in the 90s. It's exciting if intellectually stunted. 7/10
Manuel São Bento2022-06-06
★ 6/10
MORE REVIEWS @ https://www.msbreviews.com/ The Lost World definitely didn't deserve its originally bad reception. Sure, it's far from the incredible 1993's Jurassic Park. Less interesting character arcs and overall (silly) story. However, it remains fun enough with equally memorable dinosaur sequences. Goldblum rocks. Rating: B-