Dinoriffic in many ways

Rating: 9/10 (17 June 2015)

Rating-9/10
Jurassic Park is a blockbuster film, and blockbuster that is done very well indeed. It's the kind of movie where you might see the synopsis and think it looks like seen before film, but this is different in a few ways. The emotion that runs through is beautiful, not to mention the thrills the dinosaurs give you too, the characters first view of the dinosaurs is fantastic and well acted, the park so well designed.
Steven Spielberg is the mind behind the picture and he commands this in a way any big budget director can only dream of emulating. He seems to just know what to do, in every scene, and to be fair say what you say about the script in this one, Spielberg bashes out a film that probably doesn't even need a decent script. And on to that script, Spielberg gets everything he can out of it. He absolutely pulls it all out and even if fans of the original Michael Crichton novel dislike this, you can't deny Spielberg does well.
For me there are two stand out performances, Sam Neill and Richard Attenborough. First of all Neill as Palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant is good, he seems to make this film more personal and less big budget, he brings you closer to the characters and just does his job well. Attenborough is just fine in his role as John Hammond, owner of the Jurassic park. He knows what he is doing, a fine performance from a true great and he makes this movie even more memorable too.
I think this is just good fun, don't take the whole plot too seriously and you will massively enjoy this, this isn't a major award winner type movie but bits an pieces maybe do deserve great recognition. The effects used are just fantastic, and this is for 1993 as well, just top top work and really set a bar in my opinion. The animatronics of the dinosaurs are so well done, so well designed and so well, well moved in a sense. The animals are scary in this, not overly so don't fear for the kids being frightened, but it might just a little.
I think the reason this is such a classic is the way in which it can just be pretty slow and un-eventful then BOOM!, suddenly a huge T- Rex is running round or smashing the hell out of a car or something, it's actually good fun. It's characters like Jeff Goldblum's who make this funny and less serious, he cracks jokes at the scariest of times and some of his one two's with Sam Neill and Laura Dern(Ellie Sattler) are just brilliant. I think yet again Steven Spielberg directs the actors in a way that suits this movie brilliantly, they just blend well and Spielberg gets the absolute most out of them.
If you want a serious kind of drama movie(that somehow includes dinosaurs), then don't watch this, but If you want crazy all out thrills, with good acting, special effects and of course directing, this is all for you. I couldn't recommend this more to people, it is just such a good adventure, so well cast and the chemistry between everyone is just great, and again here comes that word, fun.
Overall an incredible movie, for me possibly one of the best of all time, definitely one of the best thrillers and the number one dinosaur based movie by miles. Give it a go and see if like me you find this amazing, and then you'll see just how much attention you'll give this film.