The Lost World
3.4
Adventure
Fantasy
Science Fiction
TV Movie
2001
150 min
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This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
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"I would mostly describe this 2 episode miniseries adaptation of the Lost World as entertaining. There are a couple of well known British actors, Bob Hoskins, playing Professor Challenger, an adventurer, looking for the world that he believes still lives dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 and ancient men. They find it, of course, and along the journey, meet interesting 🤔 characters, such as Peter Falk, playing against type as a preacher called Theo. He lives with his niece, Agnes, Elaine Cassidy. The other cast members, Tom Ward, and Matthew Rhys fill out the expedition that is mostly a terrible characterization of native people, as violent and superstitious. But I was glad to see Nathaniel Lees, and Tsmatu Te Nohotu, two native new Zealand men, one Samoan, and the other Maori, so at least real natives were chosen for their roles. The ape-men are ridiculous looking, but seem to be a big part of the plot. Filmed mostly in New Zealand. "
Errika Mason
