Still an extremely enjoyable movie to this day!

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2016)

Jurassic Park is still a movie that has a powerful effect on it's audience and it's easy to see why. One thing that makes it such an amazing movie is the concept of the plot. Scientists have managed to clone dinosaurs through fossilized DNA and have bred multiple species, set them up in a theme park style hotel resort to be sold to the world. The dream of multi-billionaire John Hammond has become a reality.
But as you could imagine with a monster movie, things go pear shaped as the power goes out during a pretty nasty storm, the main characters are plunged into a cascade of danger as the dinosaurs manage to escape from their enclosures, and the fight for survival is fast paced, scary and extremely well executed.
You can't review this movie without talking about the cast, This movie simply could not have had a better listing of actors. Sam Neil and Laura Dern make very believable paleontologists and their awe struck faces the first time they lay eyes on a real dinosaur is completely legit. Jeff Goldblum stirs the pot as the maths expert who can see plain as day the park is going to fail miserably. The fat, sloppy, mischievous Dennis Nedry is portrayed flawlessly by Wayne Knight and I can't ignore the fact that Samuel L. Jackson is in this movie, playing the programming expert John Arnold. Both the child actors do their bit wonderfully and make you really care about them from start to finish.
The dinosaurs themselves are still the most impressive animatronics i've seen in any film. The Tyrannosaur is utterly terrifying and the scene with it attacking the car with the two kids in it is just so memorable and scary. There's a lot of chase scenes in this movie that have you on edge and make your heart thump and it's always an added bonus when a movie can do that to you. Jurassic Park does this in spades.
Compared to the novel, there's a hell of a lot that was left out of the movie. I know there are certain budget limitations in film making but I couldn't help but feel it would have made for a better experience had the movie have been 3 hours long. There's so many parts in the book I wish were in the movie.
One thing that always amazes me about Jurassic Park is how well it still holds up. Every time I see it, I always enjoy it as if it's my first time seeing it and I cannot believe this movie is 23 years old. Watching it on Bluray for the first time was a pleasure too.
For anyone who has amazingly NOT seen this movie yet, do yourselves a favor, watch it and then try and say you didn't enjoy it. absolutely impossible!
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