The Benchmark

Rating: 9/10 (4 June 2007)

It has been more than 13 years since I first saw this movie at the theatre. To this day, I still have not seen special effects in any movie that has surpassed the quality of the effects used in this film.
The Tyrannosaurus scene is my benchmark for rating all other effects driven scenes that I have seen since 1993 and no film has even come close.
It's amazing that this much time has gone by without a film to pass the torch to, but this is the case. I fear that mass produced CGI is flooding the theatres these days with, in my opinion, unsatisfactory results. When I walked out of Jurassic Park, I literally had to re-school myself on the fact that dinosaurs have indeed been extinct for 75 million years and did not "come out of retirement" to make this movie!