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Jurassic Park (1993)

Adventure | 127 minutes
3,79 5.450 votes

Genre: Adventure / Scifi

Duration: 127 minuten

Alternative title: Jurassic Park 3D

Country: United States

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern

IMDb score: 8,2 (1.088.624)

Releasedate: 11 June 1993

Jurassic Park plot

"An adventure 65 million years in the making."

Scientists manage to clone dinosaurs from a drop of dino blood from a mosquito. Enterprising millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) wants to show the cloned dinosaurs to the public and is building a gigantic theme park for that. A lucky few, including a lawyer, a mathematician, two dinosaur experts and Hammond's grandchildren, are the first to visit the park. However, during the first thunderstorm, the electricity goes out in the park and a number of dangerous dinosaurs manage to escape from their enclosures.

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remorz

  • 2001 messages
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What to do with a film that was once known as groundbreaking but after its statute of limitations only those typical Spielbergian stumbling blocks remain.

There are still scenes that impress with how vividly the extinct species has been conjured up on the screen; in an era of exponentially developing CGI, it is especially striking that the story is as flat as a dime and all kinds of trivialities and characters have to be added to fill the one-sidedness of that capacity.

Or to disguise the commercial approach. Both Goldblum's character and (the role of) those children seem to revolve mainly around broadening the target group; otherwise I can't explain why they specifically deserve a part in a movie like this, when that attention would have gone much better to other things.

Also how ostentatious the role of that fat man is designed as the one who has to get the ball rolling, is for me after all these years especially annoyingly transparent formula approach. If you want to make a movie about dinosaurs in the context of CGI muscle work, don't dress it up with that kind of standardized drama. The soundtrack fits completely within that picture, with its amusement park-like spectacle content that was applied so unashamedly in a controlling way in the 1990s.

Okay, I'm going to let the negativity go a bit, because (both despite and thanks to the above) the movie is entertaining. It is now just too transparent how it works. 2.5*

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martijn011

  • 2012 messages
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Revised for the umpteenth time with a view to the latest Jurassic World part to hit theaters. Since I'm a big fan of the entire series, it's no punishment to review this again. Certainly this classic remains fantastic and never gets boring.

It strikes me every time that this iconic film has withstood the test of time just fine, with the exception of the computers and systems of course. The dinosaurs still look impressive and I can well imagine that this was hugely revolutionary at the time. Unfortunately I was only four years old at the time so I didn't get anything from it at the time..

Spielberg has made this movie an outright classic with lifelike images of dinosaurs and some scenes will be etched in your memory for the rest of your life (think of the T-rex that kills the man in the toilet and the death of Nedry But the best and most exciting scene is the one with the raptors in the kitchen, that remains a highlight.
4.5* stood stay and stand.

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Filmkriebel

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Spielberg remains the master of the blockbuster. Third viewing and Jurassic Park remains a brilliant film. That scene with the T-Rex is an iconic and excitingly constructed scene as well as the one with the raptors at the end.... The special effects are impressive... How does Spielberg do that? Take a scene where a car falls from a tree as the branches break... How do you get such perfect timing. You can watch this film dozens of times, it remains a viewing feast that almost half the world has seen. Everything is there: a super believable premise, fun characters, humor, big budget action... top cinema.

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