Never Gets Old

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2008)

For me this is a movie that never gets old. I saw it first when I was two (and proceeded to want to watch 'the monster movie' 24/7...but once I called it monster movie my mom didn't want me to watch it too much). I'm sixteen - almost seventeen - now and still enjoy watching it. In fact, this movie was so good it's helped me finally choose a career path. I just had to read the book after seeing the movie. And thankfully for that I'm now going to be a paleontologist.
And I'm not the only one. This movie (and the book) was so explosive that the year it came out the number of paleontologists exploded, and has been at an all time high ever since.
But back to the movie. The actors play their characters extremely convincingly, and you really begin to believe that you could look out your window and see a Velociraptor stalking you outside. And it's not just the actors. The CGI is amazing and the Dinosaurs are extremely believable - though some of the Dinosaurs are not completely realistic according to their bones. And the pacing of the movie is amazing. It's not all non-stop action, or all blood and gore. It takes the time to give you breathers, develop characters, and actually has a plot besides 'OMG-Dinosaurs-r-goin-2-eat-us,' like it might had it been handled by different people.
This movie is true movie magic. Every single time I watch it - which is a lot.