My First True Movie Experience.

Rating: 9/10 (27 February 2007)

A few minutes ago, I had been writing an elaborate review of the original King Kong, when i had to quit for personal reasons. Extremely Angry and annoyed, I decided instead to attempt a review of Jurassic Park, which very well could be the first movie that had an actual impact on me.
Here's a very short synopsis (I'm not a big fan of giving away elaborate plots for movies). The film is about a theme park called Jurassic Park, which is like a zoo with genetically engineered dinosaurs. A group of experts are invited to the island that the park is on, to give it a test tour and give the place their stamp of approval. But when a spy from a rival company shuts down the park in an attempt to steal dinosaur embryos, the creatures break out, and plenty of awesome Spielbergian-Action and Effects ensue.
I have read the book by Michael Crichton (one of my favorite authors) which is better than this film, slightly, but the movie will always personify this incredible story. Steven Spielberg is my favorite director along with Peter Jackson, and this is truly one of his best films. In fact, this was the movie which introduced me to both Spielberg and the concept of the "blockbuster." What a defining moment!!! The effects are extremely, incredibly, monstrously, astonishingly...my god, I cannot think of the right word. This film was THE movie which forever implanted the memory of Computer Generated Images into the public's head, and I still am in absolute awe of the creatures in the films. Seriously, Spielberg deserves a million extremely hot woman for what he has done with this picture. An absolute piece of art.
The actors are very good as well. Sam Neill brings a likability and intelligent nature to Dr. Alan Grant, and, being a big fan of character arcs, I really liked how his character changes throughout the movie. Laura Dern as Dr. Ellie Sattler is lovely and smart, and she deserves to become a star in her own right. The children who play Tim and Alexis Murphy fit their part nicely, never becoming too annoying or cute.
As for the other actors, they are fine, but not truly great. But i really don't want to make this a negative review, so I'm just going to skip the bad stuff, of which there is extremely little.
In the end, Jurassic Park and it's incredibly entertaining sequels (I can't wait for the fourth film) are truly great works of cinema from the greatest entertainer alive, Spielberg, and if you haven't seen it, I advise that you get your lazy rear over to a rental store, and soak in every beautiful aspect of this special effects masterpiece.
9/10. See it now if you haven't (which I doubt).