This is a review I wrote for film studies-note it is badly written

Rating: 9/10 (17 March 2017)

Jurassic Park is one of those films, the ones that never get old no matter how many times
you watch it. It's great and here's why, the characters in this film are very disguisable, you
have Dr. Alan Grant he's a palaeontologist and a famous one too. He's down to earth,
athletic and despite what he may lead you to believe he likes children. Then you have John
Hammond The owner of InGen and Jurassic Park, he himself is a dinosaur fanatic and spent
a decade furiously trying to clone dinosaurs. He did this for his love of the dinosaur but also
really wants to turn his idea into a profit; the more people tell him to shut down the park
the angrier he gets. Along with Hammond there are his two grandkids Tim and Lex, Tim
being more able to deal with the situations that arise in the film then Lex. There is also Dr.
Ian Malcolm; he's a mathematician who specialises in the emerging field of chaos theory. He
is constantly sceptical that Jurassic park could work; his predictions of the parks fate
become more and truer as the film unfolds. Another notable character is Dennis Nedry he is
the computer technician and is hired to steal embryos from the park.
The setting for this masterpiece is in the 1990s in Costa Rica and Isla Nublar, a small island of
the coast of Costa Rica, although some scenes take place in various places across the US.
With the convincing acting portrayed by the cast you will feel like you're in Costa Rica with
them, this just adds to the immersion of an already immersive film. The main theme of
Jurassic Park is the potential dangers of technology which is evident as the majority of the
cast are almost killed at some point in the film due to the technology used to bring back
dinosaurs. A basic outline of the plot is, Hammond asks two palaeontologists to come and
look at his project, project being dinosaurs. Grant who is one of the palaeontologists is
amazed. They look at the facilities used to clone the dinosaurs then move on to do a tour of
the park (essentially a dinosaur zoo)Â… it starts off well but when they reach the T-Rex
enclosure Dennis Nedry who is back at the main facilities tries to escape and basically locks
everyone out from using the technology and in result a T-Rex (and more) gets loose and
everyone runs away from man eating dinosaurs, Grant runs around the jungle with
Hammonds grandkids while Hammond and some others try and get the power working and
eventually everyone who isn't dead meets up at the main hall and fly's away on a helicopter
after a climactic battle between the T-Rex and some Velociraptors. This concludes the
movie. In the opening scene of the movie there is a lot of foreshadowing, something goes
wrong while there trying to move a Velociraptor and a man dies. This is essentially the main
theme of the movie, man tries to play with dinosaurs and people die.
As far as effects go Jurassic Park was one of the first films to use a mixture of both computer
generated images and animatronics, this created an amazing look that captured the viewer's
imagination and made the movie jut seem more real every time you watched it, the editing
was also very good, at times it was used to make the viewer feel the same as the characters,
for example awkwardly angled shots when people were trying to hide etc.
The soundtrack for Jurassic Park is a classic and when composed by John Williams it's hard
not to be, the sound track is composed of sixteen tracks which vary from thirty three
seconds to almost ten minutes long. John Williams is one of my favourite composers and
really helps to bring the film to life via music, the atmosphere created through sound just
adds to the immersion of the film. The sound effects used in this film are also amazing; they
really help to bring the dinosaurs alive. From realistic roars to the thudding of feet, all sound
effects used contribute to the films overall feel.
The moral of Jurassic Park is but a modern retelling of Classical myths concerning hubris, an
excessive pride that eventually results in the hero's fall. In this case the thing Hammond
spent so long trying to create blinded him of the risks and eventually is his downfall. I
personally really like Jurassic Park as it creates an amazing atmosphere and tells a great
story it is also re watchable time and time again. Also it captured my eye at a very young
and impressionable age and because of this it is my favourite film and probably always will
be.