A classic adventure

Rating: 8/10 (22 August 2010)

Recap: Three scientists, Grant, Sattler and Malcolm are recruited by a wealthy entrepreneur to inspect his latest business venture before it is opened to the public. The entrepreneur, John Hammond and scientists working for him has managed to extract and develop dinosaur DNA, resurrecting one extinct species after another. Soon Jurassic Park, a theme park with living, wild dinosaurs, will open. But the tour is sabotaged, the security measures turned off, and soon the dinosaurs run free. The weekend tour is now a fight for survival.
Comments: I remember it very well when this movie opened at the cinemas, a major development in cgi and a big step for movies. I remember going to the cinema on several occasions to see it, enjoying it every time. Now, almost two decades later effects have developed massively but Jurrasic Park still holds its own against the competition. As a testament to the craftsmanship that was put into the movie, Jurassic Park don't look obsolete or out of place when watched even today.
What it has lost is its uniqueness, now cgi like that are hardly breathtaking. The story is OK, the music great, but the main attraction when it was released was the stunning effects. With that lost it is still a good adventure movie, with a few quite suspenseful moments and a few jokes and one-liners mixed in, but it is not the stellar movie experience it once was. That aside, I still enjoy it. The only parts that annoy me is that it occasionally suffers from irritating-kid-syndrome, for example with the flashlight in the jeep and the T-rex.
The cast is strong, with Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum heading the credits. But it is most fun to see Samuel L Jackson in a supporting role as a programmer before breaking through big time and becoming a leading actor himself.
8/10 (based upon how I felt when it was released, now it maybe is a 7)