Murphy's Law, not Chaos Theory

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2002)

"Jurassic Park" will always be noted in cinema history for featuring the most groundbreaking development in special effects since Willis O'Brien brought King Kong to life with stop-motion animation. Thanks to computer generated images, dinosaurs live again. But Steven Spielberg didn't originally plan to use CGI--he had more mechanical methods in mind--but turned to the rapidly evolving world of digital resources late in production, which indicates a technical savviness and flexibility on his part. Spielberg is anything but a technophobe. This is in contrast to the movie's Frankenstein theme, an inveighing against scientific hubris. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. The sequels should have taken the message more to heart.