Review 57: Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is an amazing sci-fi adventure film and one of Steven Spielberg's best films and one of the greatest technical achievements in film making.

Based on the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) -- are invited by eccentric millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on Isla Nublar an island off Costa Rica. By cloning DNA harvested from pre-historic insects, Hammond has been able to create living dinosaurs for his new Jurassic Park, an immense animal preserve housing real brachiosaurs, dilophosaurs, triceratops, velociraptors, and a Tyrannosaur Rex.
Accompanied by cynical scientist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who is obsessed with chaos theory, and Hammond's two grandchildren (Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello), they are sent on a tour through Hammond's new resort in computer controlled touring cars. But as a tropical storm hits the island, knocking out the power supply, and an unscrupulous employee (Wayne Knight) sabotages the system so that he can smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the park, the dinosaurs start to rage out of control and on to attack the humans.
A tour of a dinosaur populated theme park becomes a chase for survival as Grant, Sattler and the others attempt to get the power back, evade the dinos and escape the island.

The plot is simple but effective. At it's centre it has a very simple but utterly awe-inspiring idea - What if we could bring dinosaurs back into the world? The idea alone is pretty extraordinary

Dinosaurs are some of the oldest creatures on the planet, they are pretty much extinct and we

I mean just by seeing them you get such a sense of awe.

Steven Spielberg's direction is sublime, the scenery is breathtaking, the cinematography is beautiful and captures the beauty of Isla Nublar, the sound effects are thrilling, the action scenes are genuinely and equally as exciting as they are terrifying. the score by John Williams is fabulous and effortlessly captures the senses of wonder and horror of seeing Dinosaurs onscreen.
The production design is excellent, effectively depicting Jurassic Park as a high tech the costumes are terrific.
The special effects are Monumentally unbelievable! Spielberg and his special effects team deftly and effortlessly blend animatronics and groundbreaking CGI to create actually living, breathing dinosaurs onscreen - and it is an absolute sight to behold!
There are also, particularly in the second act some

there are some of the best moments of horror since Jaws and

The acting is fine all round. Sam Neil, Laura Dern & Jeff Goldblum are

Jurassic Park is a wondrous film and should go down in history as one of the best films ever made, 5/5.

The Anonymous Critic.