Dr. Ian Malcolm: the news about the death of the Jurassic Park star in InoSMI turned out to be false. Still from the movie "Jurassic Park"

In our society, oversaturated with information, almost no one thinks for themselves. We should be brushing aside unnecessary papers, but we are brushing aside thoughts.

We exist on the planet for one brief moment, and if tomorrow we all disappear, the planet will not even notice it.

Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park

I really value my life and my time and don’t want to waste it thinking about clothes. I don't want to think every day about what I should wear the next morning. And in general, in my opinion, there is nothing more boring in the world than fashion. Except professional sports. Just think - grown people play ball with each other, and the rest of the world pays big money to applaud them. But in general, fashion is even more boring than sports. And more tiring.

Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park

Do you know what's vicious? modern science? It looks like a huge wealth that was inherited by some stupid idiot.

Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park

Scientists have diligently piled up a huge pile of all sorts of bullshit just to explain how and why they strive to comprehend the “laws of nature.” All this is plausible on the surface, but in reality they are driven by something completely different. No one will try for such a meaningless abstraction as “the search for truth.” In fact, scientists always strive for some kind of achievement. They only think about whether they will be able to accomplish something. And for some reason they never think about whether it’s worth doing this “something” at all?

Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park

Life is an endless sequence of accidents, each of which can affect the next ones completely unexpectedly, unpredictably, and sometimes even destructively.

Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park

Mathematics requires more and more courage to accept the results of its application.

Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park

Scientists cannot do otherwise. They need to leave their marks on everything they touch. They cannot simply understand phenomena and appreciate them. They cannot simply accept the laws of nature and follow them. They definitely need to create something unnatural! This is the lot of scientists, and now we have entire human communities trying to be scientists...

Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park

The entire history of evolution is a description of how different life forms overcame all kinds of limitations. Life is constantly rushing to freedom. Life is expanding into new territories. This does not happen painlessly, sometimes even at the risk of life itself - but still, life somehow finds a way to achieve its goal.

Famous American actor Jeff Goldblum was one of those reported on the Internet. Even the star's own mother bought the news of her son's death.

The news about the death of the Jurassic Park star in InoSMI turned out to be false

Screenshot of the film "Jurassic Park" 1993

On Monday, March 26, Jeff Goldblum was a guest on Look What Happened at live" with Andy Cohen and spoke about the false rumors.

The presenter asked the star of the films “The Fly” and “Independence Day” whether any of his relatives took seriously what was written about him. To which the actor gave an affirmative answer.

It turns out that information has appeared on the Internet that the 65-year-old star fell off a cliff in New Zealand.

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“Yes, you know, someone reported online that I fell off a cliff in New Zealand,” the actor noted. “Before I had time to call everyone I knew and tell me that I was alive, my mother called me: “Jay "Jay, Jeffrey, are you okay?" she said in a trembling voice.

Mom wasn't the only one who took the news painfully: "My friend, oh, I remember how in tears and hysterics he was when he left me a message."

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Ian Malcolm

Still from the movie "Jurassic Park"

Those who read the book about the failed attempt to operate an amusement park with cloned prehistoric lizards know that Dr. Ian Malcolm did not survive the finale. In the story, a mathematician, thrown into the air by a Tyrannosaurus rex, breaks his leg and later dies due to blood poisoning - but when Jeff Goldblum was hired for this role in the film, director Steven Spielberg was so captivated by the actor's charisma that he invited Crichton, who helped write the script, to save Malcolm. Crichton agreed. This decision influenced him creative plans: In The Lost World, the next dinosaur novel, Michael resurrects the mathematician by making him central character and rewarded with lameness. In the book, Malcolm walks with a cane and tells everyone that rumors of his death were “grossly exaggerated”: although he really almost died, skillful Puerto Rican surgeons managed to save him, and now everything is fine. It’s interesting that David Morrell did a similar trick after the release of First Blood: in the first book, Rambo dies, but in the second, written after the disastrous success of the film of the same name, he is alive again. Some people, of course, may not like the fact that cinema is capable of influencing the sequels of famous books like this, retroactively. On the other hand, it’s obvious that if it weren’t for the movie, there wouldn’t be any sequels.

After the events of the first part of Jurassic Park, dinosaurs not only did not become extinct, but managed to multiply, including on a neighboring island. What the hell is going on there, a special expedition is going to look. Well, at the same time, hunt and catch someone.

Four years after the Isla Nublar disaster, a British family discovers Isla Sorna, an island 87 miles west of Isla Nublar. It turns out that more and more dinosaurs are being born on this island. Result: Compsognathus wounds a little girl. John Hammond, who lost control of his company In-Gen due to this incident, sets up an expedition led by Dr. Ian Malcolm to find out why the lizards on the nearby island of Isla Sorna have not become extinct, and at the same time provide photos and videos. materials about their lives in order to protect the “lost world” from the new directors of the company.

The team included documentary cameraman Nick Van Owen, mechanical expert Eddie Carr and paleontologist and Malcolm's lover Sarah Hardin. Ian agrees to go on the expedition because he is worried about Sarah. Also hidden in the trailer was Kelly Curtis Malcolm, Ian's daughter. Before he can take her home, helicopters from the In-Gen company arrive, led by Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow. His guide, Roland Tembo, demands that instead of payment, he be given the opportunity to get a tyrannosaurus as a hunting trophy.

The well-equipped In-Gen team captures parasaurolophus, pachycephalosaurs and other species to take them off the island. Roland finds a Tyrannosaurus rex nest and ties up the baby to lure the adult Tyrannosaurus rex. While Dieter Stark remained in charge, Nick and Sarah opened all the cages with captured dinosaurs. Roland has to return to camp. Nick finds a baby T. rex with a broken leg, so he and Sarah decide to take the baby to the laboratory. Eddie, Kelly and Ian take the elevator up the tree. Ian goes down to warn Sarah about the approaching T. rex. They release the baby, but the tyrannosaurs throw the trailer off a cliff.

While the trailer is hanging, Eddie arrives and throws the rope inside. Eddie's car is attacked by two Tyrannosaurus rexes. The trailer falls from the cliffs along with the car, the tyrannosaurs leave, and Eddie himself dies, eaten by the lizards. As a result of these events, two conflicting groups are forced to unite in the face of mortal danger. Having gone in search of Dieter, who was lost in the forest, Roland and Carter discovered a communications point in the center of the valley, but returned back for the group. Due to the cub's blood remaining on Sarah's jacket, the camp is attacked at night by two Tyrannosaurus rexes, which pursue the group. As a result, people from the In-Gen group die.

Roland tranquilizes the male. Malcolm's group runs to the communications center. Along the way, they pass a field with velociraptors, who destroyed the rest of the In-Gen group. 6 people survive: Ian, Sarah, Nick, Kelly, as well as Roland and Ludlow. Nick goes forward alone and calls for help from the mainland. The others arrive later because Ian is injured. On the way, they encounter velociraptors, but a helicopter arrives on time and takes them to the mainland. The In-Gen group loads the sleeping tyrannosaurus onto the ship. Roland is persuaded to stay, promising to give him a promising job, but he refuses and flies away on the helicopter of the arriving rescuers. When the ship arrives on the mainland, it turns out that there are no survivors on the ship. The Tyrannosaurus breaks out of the cargo bay and makes its way to San Diego. It turns out that Ludlow also kidnapped the cub. Ian and Sarah steal the baby and lure the T. rex back to the ship. Peter himself runs inside, but there he is taken by surprise by a dinosaur, leaving him to be torn to pieces by the cub. The ship sets off back to the island. On television, John Hammond asks to leave the island alone and leave nature to its own devices.

Country: USA
Year: 1997
Director: Steven Spielberg
Scenario: Michael Crichton, David Koepp; Based on the book "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton
Operator: Janusz Kaminski
Composer: John Williams
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee Chester, Pete Posthwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Attenborough, Peter Stormare and others.

The success of the first part of "Jurassic Park" - the box office, the love of audiences and critics, a new surge of dinosaur mania, a milestone in the creation of special effects - could not help but make us think about a sequel. What should the sequel be like? That’s right, “the same cabbage soup, but pour in thicker!” Did the audience like the realistic dinosaurs? So we need more dinosaurs! Do viewers remember the moments when dinosaurs hunted people? More dinosaurs more people, which means deaths! The development of the plot and characters faded into the background, because it would seem that it was obvious why the audience fell in love with the first “Park...”. As it turned out, it’s not so obvious. They brought in the money, but the sequel failed to reach the level of the first part, either in terms of money, popularity, or quality.
The book had a similar problem. Michael Crichton, after the success of the first film, set about making a sequel and in 1994 released a sequel called “The Lost World”, and a sequel was made from it. And you know, perhaps the resulting film is really the best that could have happened with the source material. What did the book offer, what was included from it in the film itself, what problems did both the book and the film have, and why it was not possible to reach the bar? installed first a movie?

So, in 1994, Michael Crichton's book The Lost World was published. The title refers to the work of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912. In Doyle's story, Professor Challenger discovers South America a plateau inhabited by dinosaurs that have survived to this day. Of course, Doyle was not the first - even before him, Jules Verne, in his book “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1864), placed dinosaurs underground, in a distant and inaccessible place for humans, where dinosaurs have survived to this day. Our compatriot, Vladimir Obruchev, was not too pleased with Verne’s novel and in 1915 wrote “Plutonium,” where he also placed dinosaurs in a place inaccessible and distant for humans, but where they had a chance to survive to this day.
In general, these books also indicated surges of interest in dinosaurs in society, but these three books (and two by Crichton) had the following in common: dinosaurs exist today in a limited space. Crichton only placed them on a couple of islands, and replaced survival with genetic rebirth.
But the book itself, “The Lost World,” essentially begins with a paleontologist’s statement about the possibility of dinosaurs surviving on some island to this day. And the action takes place off the coast of Central America. In short, the reference is obvious.

vestibule

Where does the film begin? A rich family arrives on the island of Sorna to vacation. However, their daughter falls victim to an attack by procompsognathus.

A similar incident was described in Crichton’s first book, “Jurassic Park,” where the same procompsognathus, having made their way to the mainland, bit the daughter of a family who was going on vacation to the beach in the wildest places. The beginning, in addition to building up the atmosphere, sets the stage for upcoming events.
The book gives a general introduction to what is happening. The InGen corporation went bankrupt and its property was sold off. The dinosaurs on Isla Nublar were destroyed, but the surviving people signed a non-disclosure document and kept their mouths shut. The world does not know about the incident itself. However, Ingen's competitor, Biosin, led by Lewis Dodgson, plans to intercept at least some of InGen's developments. The previous attempt failed: it was Dodgson who bribed Nedry, who then caused the disaster of the park.
At the same time, dinosaur carcasses washed up by the tide are found on the coast of Costa Rica, but due to an outbreak of encephalitis, the authorities decide that these carcasses are spreading the infection, and they are burned. Paleontologist Richard Levine just finds one such carcass and manages to cut a piece of flesh from it. He begins to prepare to search for an island inhabited by dinosaurs.
What's in the film? Well, John Hammond survived. But the disaster seriously undermined the reputation and power of his corporation, and Hammond is now dealing with investors, as well as his own nephew, Peter Ludlow, who intends to continue Hammond's work. As we know, Hammond will then sell the corporation to Masrani, and he will build Jurassic World, and the corporation will also begin genetic development with the participation of the military.

Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard)

In addition to Hammond, Ian Malcolm also survived, who, although he signed a non-disclosure document, could not resist, which is why he suffered damage to his reputation. Actually, in the book he... also survived. How? Well, Crichton was helped by a streamlined phrase in the first book:
- How's Malcolm?
Muldoon shook his head.
Later, however, it is mentioned about permission for the funeral of Hammond and Malcolm, which could be misinformation. In the second book, Hammond was not resurrected, but how did Malcolm explain his rise from the dead? Miracle and thanks to the surgeons. This terribly reminded me of the resurrection of Ostap Bender - what can I do, such a bright character required resurrection. But the writer needs to justify this dishonest technique so that the reader can accept it by writing a sequel that is not inferior to the original. Ilf and Petrov succeeded. Crichton does not.

Characters

In general, in terms of characters, the film is very different from the book. Here, rather, screenwriter David Koepp helped, and for good reason, perhaps. Ian Malcolm (in the film he does not need to make excuses for his death) and his girlfriend Sarah Harding, a biologist, remained unchanged. True, as unchangeable.... Malcolm in the book, who seems to be main character, drops out of the game for a long time, Sarah Harding is included in his place, whereas in the film they are quite an equal couple.

Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore)

In the book, the expedition of the “good” included paleontologist Richard Levine, Dr. Thorne and a couple of children, one of whom was black, as well as mechanic Eddie. The film also features cameraman Nick Van Owen, Malcolm’s daughter Kelly, who is black (this character, in fact, combined two children and took the girl’s name), as well as mechanic Eddie. Is it for the better? Definitely yes. The children were painfully reminiscent of Tim and Lex, and although Levine was well written, there were certain problems with him. In general, both Thorne and Levine pushed Malcolm, and it turned out that the main character was absent, which was clearly not suitable for the film.

Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum)

The enemy in the book serves one purpose: to be a steak. It has virtually no effect on the plot. The only thing in demand is the delivery of Sarah Harding to the island, and the line with the tyrannosaurs, after which they do not intersect with the main characters at all, and even in the finale, in fact, do not interact in any way. No, well, there was a clash between Sarah Harding and the main villain Dodgson, but this skirmish might not have happened, it was just a tribute to Hollywood traditions, nothing more. Two of Dodgson's henchmen are generally useless and are needed only for a colorful description of deaths from the paws of dinosaurs.
The goals of these two groups are also different in the film and in the book. According to the film, Hammond sends Sarah Harding to photograph dinosaurs in order to present the photographs to the public and thereby influence InGen with declassification. In general, she was supposed to go with the main crew, but chose to go early. And then Malcolm arrived with Van Owen and Eddie, and Malcolm’s daughter, who had snuck in with them.

Tim, Lex and Ian Malcolm

In the book, Levine finds an island with dinosaurs, but gets into trouble and loses contact with the mainland. Thorne, Eddie and Malcolm set out to look for him; fortunately, they knew Levine. Children also make their way with them - two of Thorne's students. Objective: Find Levine. Well, in the film Malcolm is already looking for Sarah Harding.

As for the enemy, in the book, Dodgson intercepts information about the island of Sorna and heads there for dinosaur eggs, hoping to improve his affairs and reputation. He also takes Sarah Harding with him, whom he then... throws into the water. Because Dodgson is a villain and that’s it! But she eventually gets to her...
In the film, Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow, knows about Isle Sorna and goes there himself to look for dinosaurs, because he has his own plans...

Isla Sorna

Both the book and the film take place on Isla Sorna, which, like Nublar, is located west of Costa Rica. In fact, this is a reserve for artificially recreated dinosaurs. Isla Nublar was the showcase, the sign, Isla Sorna the forge, the heart, the brain, so to speak. Dinosaurs are raised there, they live there in the wild, forming a stable ecosystem, and they serve as a source for Hammond Park. Or rather, they served - the park is closed (according to the book, it was completely destroyed).
By the way, about restoring a disappeared ecosystem. Already at the time of writing the book (and especially the filming of the film), this was not science fiction. There is such a project, they have been doing it in Russia since the 80s, and it bears the name “Pleistocene Park”. If anyone is interested, here is the official website of this interesting project, the essence of which is to restore the previous ecosystem, which was much more productive than the current one. Perhaps science fiction is not as fantastic as it seems.
But let's get back to the review.

Based on the film, Hammond planned another park, in the city of San Diego (USA), since it’s a bit far from Nublar, after all. It is this San Diego park that Ludlow dreams of restoring. And, I must admit, the addition of San Diego Park and Isla Sorna does not look forced or artificial in the film. Hammond's main goal was Nublar - that's why he talked about him, about this showcase. He simply did not have time to talk about other plans, because events went wrong. But in the book... you see, Crichton talked about everything in such detail that the absence of Isle Sorna simply cannot be explained by anything, because Crichton also wrote on behalf of the author, giving a general exposition. Damn, the book even voices Hammond’s thoughts after the collapse of the park, saying that it’s okay, there are still frozen embryos in the cache, although why would he need them if he has a whole island?!

John Hammond (Richard Attenborough)

After the incident in the park, all personnel were evacuated from Isla Sorna, leaving the dinosaurs to fend for themselves. Then InGen went bankrupt and... no one came to the island anymore, yeah, yeah. No one at all. And that’s why no one saw dinosaurs. In the film at the moment they furnished it more intelligently, at least there were vacationers there, and “InGen” still controlled the island....

The action begins

Sarah Harding is alive and well and photographing stegosaurs.

And this is from the filming.

By the way, in the book she was the first to meet stegosaurs. And yes, there are no complaints about their appearance, these were the original creatures.
And then all the “good ones” notice Ludlow’s grand arrival. And, unlike his book prototype - Dodgson - he prepared conscientiously. Dodgson generally made do with two assistants while obtaining dinosaur eggs. That’s why he didn’t last long, only managing to steal a couple of eggs...

And then the grand safari begins! With dinosaurs!

The passage of a motorcycle between the legs of a sauropod was also in the book. Here the nameless mercenary "InGen", and there Sarah Harding on an electric motorcycle was chasing a velociraptor who stole the key to the cage with a black child. And behind Sarah was a girl named Kelly, who had to shoot the raptor. Some kind of rubbish? That's right, they could have picked the lock without a key....
Let's catch a pachycephalosaurus, be careful, it has a strong, thick skull, which it also uses as a battering ram. According to the book, the pachycephalosaurs ate cars to their hearts' content... just like in the film.

And here is a handsome parasaurolophus, a duck-billed dinosaur.

Well, there really are a lot of dinosaurs, and they look high quality.
People too. But only one assistant is really registered - the experienced hunter Roland Tembo, whose dream is to kill a tyrannosaurus. And you know, Roland alone is worth all the book assholes, because at least something can be said about him and he even has his own story arc, which is simply an unaffordable luxury.

Ronald (Pete Postthwaite)

And the “good” ones watch the safari and are very upset. Gripisovtsy, damn it. Even Malcolm is imbued with the fate of the unfortunate dinosaurs, although after his experience he must react somehow differently.

The "good" ones are assembled. From left to right: Kelly, Malcolm, Sarah, Nick Van Owen and Eddie.

Ludlow is pleased: some of the dinosaurs have been caught and are languishing in cages for further shipment to the San Diego park. Of course, the question arises, what is Isla Nublar like? But, rather, it simply cannot boast of such a variety of species and number of dinosaurs.

Evening is coming. Roland finds a baby T. rex and uses it as bait for an adult T. rex. The question is, really, where have the adults gone? In the book, Dodgson and his henchmen were just stealing tyrannosaurus eggs, scaring off the adults with some kind of high-frequency sounds, but here?..
But the “good” ones ruin everything. While Ludlow brags about his catch to the television cameras, and Roland stands in ambush, “our guys” open the locks on the cages. And the dinosaurs start running and having fun!
Here is the Triceratops in all its glory.

Along the way, the “good” ones take the cub, because, you see, its leg is broken, it needs to be healed! Why is this such kindness... Although, in the book there was a similar moment, and the “good” ones took the cub with them, because the evil Dodgson accidentally maimed it. And then, in the book they still hesitated and offered to shoot him.

Tyrannosaurus Attack

Of course, the tyrannosaurs hunt down the kidnappers. In the book, they were at least distracted by Dodgson and his henchmen, cynically devouring one of them. Here they are chilling out who knows where, but still they go out to the trailer of our heroes - just like in the book. The cub is given to them, but the parents decide to teach the impudent people a lesson and push the trailer into a cliff. And you know, the scene both in the film and in the book is gorgeous, keeps you in suspense. During the course of the action, both on paper and on film, mechanic Eddie dies. What can you do, someone had to die....

The Tyrannosaurs leave, satisfied with poor Eddie. Those who remain are saved by the people of Ludlow (according to the book, they themselves are saved). They realized that they were not alone on the island, but now there is a problem: the escaped dinosaurs destroyed all means of communication. And the opponents are forced to unite.

Dinosaur Hunt

The next day, Peter Stormare (his character's name is something else, but whatever) gets lost in the forest and becomes a victim of procompsognathus. But Roland discovers a communications center on the island, and the whole company settles down for the night (a busy day, to say the least). But at night the tyrannosaurs come - and the fun continues!

In general, in the book the “good” ones ran away from velociraptors, as well as carnotaurs (literally “carnivorous bull”) - another formidable predator. In the book, Carnotaurs were also first-class chameleons, but this somehow does not fit with their real appearance. This is what they roughly looked like.

Why do such large predators need such first-class camouflage that people couldn’t even notice them? What about the horns on the muzzle and the spiky protrusions and bumps on the skin? After all, the imprint of the skin has been preserved...
There are no carnotaurs in the film (which is a pity, they are colorful creatures), but there are velociraptors. The InGen mercenaries die to the delight of the viewer from tyrannosaurs and velociraptors. While running from the T-Rex, the heroes run into a cave behind a waterfall. The same moment happened in the first book, Grant, Tim and Lex were hiding in a cave.
But Roland goes out to duel with a tyrannosaurus! True, someone took the cartridges from his rifle, so he had to switch to a sleeping pill. And Van Owen took it so that the T-Rex would not be killed and he could eat the little people.

And the “good” ones get to the communications center and call for help. How is everything working? Ty, in the book everything worked too, even the computers, after five years without people, in an aggressive environment and dinosaurs. And there the geothermal station was still in full operation, it never failed, yeah, yeah.
One of the Velociraptors grabs Sarah!

But she gives him the backpack and runs away.
In general, there was a similar moment in the book, only with Levine and the Carnotaurs.
In general, velociraptors have become lazy and are now not as formidable as they used to be. Malcolm has no problem here at all.

Even the black woman copes with them, pushing the lizard onto a stake.

Helicopters are arriving. Of the entire group, only Malcolm, Harding, Van Owen and Kelly survived. Well, the “bad” ones are Ludlow and Roland. Roland puts the Tyrannosaurus to sleep, and then Ludlow declares that he is fed up with everything and is retiring and quitting his dangerous lifestyle.

In general, one can understand him: his people were killed without exception, and the tyrannosaurus is a very dangerous opponent. Apparently, at this moment Roland finally reconsidered his views and decided to quit. Damn, the movie character turned out to be livelier and more interesting than all the book characters.

By the way, now you can forget about the book: according to it, the heroes break away from the Velceraptors without losses and get off the island by boat.
But the film is still ongoing!

Dinosaurs in the city

Ludlow has lost people and equipment, and so he decides to capture at least a tyrannosaurus with a baby and take them to the San Diego park. Fortunately, the tyrannosaurus was caught, and the baby was found. Where is the second T-Rex hanging around? Who the hell knows, he’s running around somewhere and laughing.
Of course, the heroes are not happy, but who asks them... And Malcolm with Harding, Van Owen and Kelly returns to San Diego.
Ludlow stands at the port, waiting for a cargo ship with a Tyrannosaurus rex on board to appear.

And the ship appears quite impressively!

What's happened? Someone ate the entire crew. Who? Who the hell knows. After which... um... the revived surviving limbs, wanting to escape from the island, sent the ship to San Diego. Or it was like this: the ship was sailing to San Diego, the tyrannosaurus woke up and... called the entire crew for help. They came, and he ate them, after which the hands crawled back to their places and continued to steer the ship. Choose which option you like best.
In short, the entire crew is dead, and the tyrannosaurus gets free.

And he starts playing GTA!

Ask, is no one guarding him? No, they are guarding us, but the guards are not fools and let our heroes go, otherwise the tyrannosaurus has already gone completely berserk.
Let there be a chase!
A Tyrannosaurus rex is lured back to the ship by its baby. The first one, however, comes across Ludlow - he wants to steal at least a cub for his park. But then a tyrannosaurus comes in and teaches the child how to properly hunt people. Actually, Dodgson’s fate in the book was the same, only it was on the island of Sorna and in the nest of tyrannosaurs.
Sarah injects the tyrannosaurus with a sleeping pill. Enough, I've played enough!

And he is taken back to Isla Sorna. And Hammond gives a speech, saying, don’t touch this dinosaur reserve. As Malcolm aptly noted, he retrained from a capitalist to a conservationist.

Bottom line.
Perhaps screenwriter David Koepp did good job. Yes, the film's script is not ideal. The focus is on action, and the characters are flat and cardboard-like. Ian Malcolm, the original mathematician, has turned into a vague Good Guy, forgetting all his theories and previous encounters with dinosaurs. Sarah is simply his faithful Fighting Friend. And also the terribly infuriating Kelly. However, the main villain - Ludlow - has motivation, reasons, in fact, he is the embodiment of the book Hammond. And his henchman, Roland, changes noticeably after the fight with the tyrannosaurus, which makes his character a little deeper. Others... well, steaks for dinosaurs, nothing more. Of course, this is compensated by inventive action, DINOSAURS, high-quality special effects, intense scenes, but still, Spielberg is worth praising for this, but what about the screenwriter?
Yes, because the material for the script this time was poor. If the first book only had to be cut down and slightly corrected, then here it had to be redone. "The Lost World" repeated "Jurassic Park" and made no attempt to get beyond it. We will remain within the borders of Isla Sorna. The Biosyn Corporation will be represented by a couple of characters who act exclusively as “meat”, and these characters are terribly one-dimensional. Even Hammond from the book, despite his vile nature, could boast of something positive, since he was able to realize such complex project, broke through it, so to speak. And Dodgson... He fucked up everything he could, what he couldn’t, he strained himself and fucked it up.
Well, the “good” ones, once on the island, quickly get out of there, and turn out to be very lucky. Moreover, Malcolm somehow drops out of the story due to his injury, generally bothers people less with reasoning, and, most importantly, the purpose of his stay ends... in nothing. At the beginning, Malcolm said that on the island of Sorna we can trace the reasons for the extinction of dinosaurs. Intriguing? Yeah! Answer? Well, since this ecosystem is artificial, it cannot provide an answer. You couldn’t have thought of that before, right?!
And also the nonsense with velociraptors. In the book, they don’t particularly care for the offspring, they get by with just a whip, and they can even kill. Malcolm states that this is because no one raised Velociraptors, so they don't know that the babies need to be raised too. It seems logical that when recreating they did not bother to somehow solder the instincts, but... hello, tyrannosaurs take care of their offspring in such a way that they take the cub away from the kidnappers. But they are also artificially recreated, like velociraptors! And not only they, but also the Maiasaura, not seen in the film, take care of their cubs. There is a contradiction. Well, and a working abandoned geothermal station (why wasn’t it disconnected?), working computers, working video cameras... and five years have passed, on a tropical island with dinosaurs. And take Levine: the paleontologist spent at least three days alone on the island, chasing a tyrannosaurus on a bicycle, neither velociraptors nor carnotaurs find him, but when everyone else arrives on the island, Levine is more than once on the brink of death, and then and begins to become a desperate coward, even though he somehow survived all these three days?! Well, in the end I lived to see the end of the book.
So it turns out that the book was only able to offer a portion of action, some of which ended up in the film. But nothing more, and thanks at least for the fact that we managed to cobble together something digestible using such material. Of course, this is not God knows what a plus, but at least the filmmakers tried.
The sequels could not reach the bar set by the originals, but the film (and the book a little) had something to offer and show. But the creators were clearly running out of steam....