Great technical production, story!

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2002)

This film was rather marvellous in its technical capabilities: bringing computer-generated imaging a good stride forwards. The storyline is very exciting, but it would have even been even more so if a couple of points from the original book had been brought out better -- especially the book's excellent explanation of chaos theory.
In the book, Dennis Nedry is an ingenious computer programmer whose talents are exploited by the evil taskmaster John Hammond, driving him to attempt to salvage a bit of well-deserved compensation for his underappreciated masterpiece of a complete system for the control and maintenance of myriads of beasts (well there was that one bug, but everybody's entitled to a mistake). But in this film, John Hammond is made out to been a sweet, fun-loving fellow, and Dennis Nedry who is made out to be a pompous fat slob for whom avarice is more important than a job well done.
Being a computer programmer, I had keenly sympathetic towards Nedry with whom I felt I shared several traits, but I was disgusted with the Nedry of the movie who was an embarrassment to all computer programmers.
Nevertheless, the story is excellent! It was well thought-out and perpetually interesting.