Excellent dinosaur adventure

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2004)

In 1957, Universal brought us The Land Unknown with a man in suit T-Rex and enlarged lizards as dinosaurs. In 1993, the same company brought us the excellent Jurassic Park with computer generated dinosaurs. Special effects certainly have come along way since The Land Unknown.
Professor John Hammond takes a small group of people including his grandchildren to show them his dinosaurs his has created using DNA from dino blood preserved in insects encased in amber. He has set up a theme park known as Jurassic Park on a remote island . The dinosaurs start killing people when the group are looking round when the security system is switched off to let someone can escape with stolen dinosaur embryos. Eventually, the security system is switched on again and everything calms down.
The dinosaurs include a T-Rex, Brachiosaurus, Tricerotops and, best of all, Velociraptors. Some of the close up scenes of these may be a little frightening for younger viewers.
The movie has an excellent cast: Sam Niell and Laura Dern are joined by Richard Attenborough (Brighton Rock, 10 Rillington Place) as Hammond, Jeff Goldblum (Independence Day), Samual L Jackson (Deep Blue Sea) and Joseph Mazzello (Radio Flyer, The River Wild). All play good parts. The music by John Williams is excellent.
This movie is one of the best dinosaur movies ever made. Excellent stuff.
Rating: 5 stars out of 5.