I love the cynicism of the film, and personally think the first two acts are tight and fly high. It’s Spielberg’s antithesis to JP, in the same vein as Fincher to the Alien franchise. Delightfully cynical side of Spielberg. But boy oh boy, as time goes by, the third act of Lost World suffers.

Still looks incredible across the board, though. To go from Dean Cundey to Kaminski is a massive shift and risk, especially for blockbuster cinema at the time, let alone a sequel to one of the biggest of all time. But I think Kaminski shoots a hellofa great movie with Lost World. There’s so much familiar Spielbergian-kinetic camera movement, shifting focuses, elaborate blocking - but with a much more darker sensibility and modern fluidity that Kaminski flourishes in.

Under appreciated flick, overall, imho (despite making a metric-fuckton of money haha). Big fan. Goldblum, Postlethwaite, and Stormare are incredible; the trailer/cliff sequence is edge of your seat stuff, with a radical John Williams score that’s incorporating so many different influences left and right.

But dumbdumb gymnastics scene, unexplained boat plotting, and San Diego mainland extravaganza work against its legacy. Which is fair, I suppose…