An achievement in both art and technology

Rating: 10/10 (15 September 2002)

Only Spielberg could pull this off. He took a technology being at its infant stages and he applied it to a story that could bring out only the best of its qualities. Because let's face it, creating dinosaurs is much easier than creating other living creatures, because of the skin texture. Computers can do it relatively easy and with the contribution of the most determined director in history, the results are breath-taking.
And it's the presence of Spielberg that makes this movie so believable. He put all this monumental effort into making a movie that looks better than most of today's visual effects movies ('Mummy Returns', 'Dungeons and Dragons', etc). In fact the effects on this movie are even better than the effects of 'Jurassic Park 3'. Now, JP 3 includes effects that are more advanced than those of the first movie, but they are less effective.
My point is that the 'Spielberg' factor is an important element for a movie. He has this enormous power both as an artist and as a producer, to collect and effectively employ the best of this world in his movies.
No one else could make this movie any better, even today.
10/10