Adventure 65 million years in the making, but it actually only took about 3

Rating: 9/10 (16 July 2012)

Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park is his best original film, and by original I mean not a sequel, since Raiders of the Lost Ark. And what a film it is, and it takes a director like Spielberg to make this more than an animals gone bad special effects film, but adds in the human characters that make it exciting. When it comes to C.G.I., these effects, though primitive, are some of the most effective and well done I've seen even to this day. And do you know why? Because the dinosaurs are, in the story, almost computer generated themselves. Therefore, it's appropriate that they seem a little fake, because after all, they are not real, real dinosaurs. I must say, the human characters, played by Sam Niell, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough and so on, are good, with the best being the almost childish at times Jeff Goldblum, who of course came back for the sequel, and it's fun to have some humans to identify with along with the mindless, yet tremendous special effects.