The Lost World (2001) (2025)

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• Review by GoodBadMovies ★★★½

  This TV film, produced by the BBC in 2001, is often overlooked. After the groundbreaking first film "The Lost World" from 1925, it is probably the best interpretation of Sir Artur Conan Doyle's novel. It's got Bob Hoskins, James Fox and Peter Falk ("Columbo") a personable cast, nice adventure feeling, beautiful locations and solid GCI and animatronic effects. Even if the second half is dragging on, some scenes are unnecessary and some characters no longer seem contemporary ...
  Surprisingly high quality and entertaining TV film.

  Dieser TV-Film, 2001 produziert vom BBC wird gerne mal übersehen, dabei ist das nach der wegweisenden ersten Verfilmung "The Lost World" von 1925 die wohl beste Umsetzung des Romans von Sir Artur Conan Doyle und…

• Review by Goremaster ★★★½

  BBC's version of the story starring Bo Hoskins as Professor Challenger.

  It's a good version. The dinosaurs look like those dinos from the Discovery Channel's shows. There are a lot more dinosaurs here than in the boring 1992 version. That's what Lost World is about ! Keep the dinosaurs coming !

• Review by loureviews ★★★

  In a second viewing after thirteen years I still feel torn about this television movie adaptation of the Conan Doyle novel.

  It moves along at a fair pace but changes too much of the storyline, and although Bob Hoskins and Matthew Rhys are good as the bluff Professor who is convinced he has found dinosaurs and the cub reporter on the look-out for a scoop, James Fox is too ripe as a science-bound Prof who goes along to the rainforest for the ride without any real belief system, and Tom Ward is little more than a caricature as the hunting and womanizing Lord Roxton.

  Still, there is a nice late career appearance from Peter Falk as a man of God, reasonable special effects, and a good sense of Boy's Own adventure with the tension of the attendance of Elaine Cassidy's Agnes, the innocent amongst wolves.

• Review by Jeremiah Goodman ★★★★

  Bob Hoskins is an excellent Challenger (perhaps my favorite), and the rest of the cast is quite good. It's interesting how the different versions add in a female character and different themes. This one opts for a missionary's niece who acts as translator and guide. It also piles on some religious themes.

• Review by Nathanael Reyes ★★★★

  Yesterday (which happened to be my sisters birthday), I decided to take a look at the 2001 adaptation of the novel The Lost World, this time adapted by the BBC and that I saw once when I was younger.

  And it was pretty enjoyable all around.

  To start off we have a solid cast. Matthew Rhys (The Americans, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle) plays Edward Malone here and does a very good job at being a guy determined to prove himself but is blatantly out of his league. And yet despite that you still root for the guy, due to Rhys making Malone a very likeable character. Continuing the trend of adding female characters to each adaptation, we have Elaine…

• Review by uno🫚 ★★★★½

  This holds up so good tho for how old it is I was obsessed as a child and now I know why!!!!!! It was bob

• Review by idleprimate ★★★★

  This was a very satisfying watch. It blended good old fashioned adventure and sense of wonder and discovery with some updates including an ecological sensibility that presents our heroes with a conundrum, and a reminder that just like today, paleontology and anthropology present threats to some religious quarters--this aspect did not feel shoe-horned in or ham-fisted, it felt like an organic piece of the story, which is saying something.

  I particularly enjoyed that much of the story was about exploring and discovery and not simply being put in jeopardy by creatures. So many films about discovery resort to being quasi-horror films where science is soundly trounced by things that go bump in the night. This is as truer for space exploration as the ancient rainforest and it is tedious and repetitive like a fearful mantra best left-back before the enlightenment.

  It was a fun and romantic film with a sound conclusion.

• Review by Robbie Phillips ★★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Before Impossible Pictures was founded the creators of the Walking With... Trilogy made a TV movie to adapt a Conan Doyle's novel of The Lost World for the sophisticated 21st century audiences it was good little bit adventurous and a little more better then the early Lost World movies, there are so many Lost World adaptions and nobody didn't some adaptions to Prof. Challenger series the ending of the movie was a bit green but not liking good enough for keeping The Lost World safe from human damage but happy ending was clearly perfect well put and I liked the allosaurus in TV version.

• Review by David ★★★½

  A fantastic adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle story - almost all the cast (specifically Bob Hoskins & Peter Falk) are magnificent & thanks to the iconic Walking with Dinosaurs, some awesome animatronic Dinosaurs for everyone to properly interact with

• Review by Liam Navey ★★½

  Fuckin loved this film when I was a kid

• Review by SpicyBoiMoopies ★½

  The only dinosaur here is the story; a leftover from the age of colonialism. All of the old adventure clichés are there, like white people making peace with primitive natives, and nothing new is brought to the table. The story is dated and boring. The heroes are unlikeable; Roxton is a homocidal misogynist; Challenger an angry old geezer; Summerlee a pompous goof; Malone, a dough-faced wimp; and Cluny, a "strong" female protgaonist in constant need of affection and rescuing. Oh, and there's a terribly mishandled Creationism vs. Evolution debate thrown in for good measure too.

• Review by Jackasaurus47 ★★★★½

  I can’t think of a single person I know who would enjoy this movie as much I do. I’m prolly rating this movie way too high, but guys it has my dawg Allosaurus in it. Throw in a fun cast (shootout Peter Falk), some honestly interesting ideas, and I cannot stress this enough multiple scenes with Allosaurus, and I’m giving this movie 4.5 stars.

  Would have been 5/5 but needs more Allosaurus.