Spielberg brings dinosaurs back to life!

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 2019)

I've not visited this film for nigh on twenty years (is it that long) and what I came across was a film that took me back to the day I watched it on the cinema screen.
The story based on Michael Crichton's novel is directed by great film director Steven Spielberg. It has elements that have proven a success in his near twenty year career prior to this 1993 release.
The film is a technological achievement showing dinosaurs brought back to life on an island theme park.
The casting includes stalwart Richard Attenborough as the island theme park owner John Hammond, Sam Neill as paleontologist Dr. Grant, Laura Dern as his partner paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum).
The film was made so long ago now (1993) that Samuel L. Jackson has a mere supporting role!
Of course the story is science fiction based on genetic engineering and it is the character of Malcolm that observes that "life finds a way" in response to the genetic engineers assurances that the dinosaurs are all female and so cannot breed!
At the time the dinosaurs are brought to the screen via a mixture of CGI and animatronic by renowned Stan Winston.
The CGI does show a little of its age now?
Mixing elements of disaster films, Jaws, King Kong to name but a few I was left thoroughly enthralled at the films grandeur that is lost a little on a television screen.
The film has the usual Steven Spielberg company including music by John Williams but it is the dinosaurs that are the main attraction.