John Hammond's great dinosaur theme park affront to God and man remains singular. Even Spielberg didn't even try to resurrect that exact mix of awe and terror in The Lost World, that film leaning far more into the scary nature of the flesh-eating dinosaurs as opposed to their grass-eating, foot-stomping wonder.

I don’t think I’d be surprising anyone who knows me by saying that I’m a Jurassic franchise superfan. I’m even someone who enthusiastically enjoyed both of the previous sequels to Jurassic World. But I can agree with everyone that 1993’s Jurassic Park is the high bar of the series,