Epic adventure!

Rating: 10/10 (23 October 2018)

I used to think that those who called Jurassic Park one of the greatest movies of all time were just being over the top. Now that I've actually seen it, I wholeheartedly agree with them! It's not "the" greatest film (well, I don't think so yet, anyway), but it's certainly "one" of them (alongside the likes of "Raiders of the Lost Ark").
In the movie, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has created a theme park of cloned dinosaurs on the island of Nublar. Hammond brings in paleontologist Dr Allan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr Sattler (a female), Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and a lawyer (first name Donald) to inspect it and approve it. After a tour (with very few dinosaurs showing up), they are very skeptical. (Except for Donald, of course, who's thinking about his check.) However, one of the island employees (first name Dennis) had been hired by a rival company to steal dino embryos. That night - as a hurricane's moving in - he shuts down the power and security systems (including the electric fences that kept the dinos in their enclosures), but notably leaves the extra security for the Raptors' pen on. The power was shut off just as the inspecting visitors were in front of the T-Rex pen in automated electric cars. The T-Rex and several other dinosaurs break loose, and the night (and next day) quickly turn into a fight for survival.
The movie is quite exciting and actually kinda fun to watch. I enjoyed both the plot and the anti-cloning themes. The action is awesome, as is the acting. But one of the movie's most prominent features is the special effects, which are frighteningly real-looking (literally). I didn't find the movie very scary (apart from the opening scene - and how real (and scary) the T-Rex looks).
Overall, a very good watch.