spared no expense.....

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2011)

On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA.
Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park, and help calm anxious investors.
However, their park visit is anything but tranquil as the park's security system breaks down, the prehistoric creatures break out......
There is no surprise that this film was the box office king for four years, this is truly one of the last original big summer movies to be released. And it's success was thanks to the lack of the world wide web being virtually non existent at the time.
All we had were the trailers and that iconic poster to whet our appetite, and the rest is history.
This is the perfect family film, it's not too dark, but not too child orientated, and it has that obvious Spielberg magic to every character and the narration.
The film does start off quite slowly, but the first scene gives us a hint of what is to come. And when the glass of water starts to vibrate, the film never lets up until we see the 'directed by Steven Spielberg' credit.
The effects today are still awe-inspiring, and the tension is still phenomenal today. Compared to todays summer movies, give or take a couple, they don't hold the heart or emotion or the thrills that this film does.
The cast are great, and Peck is eerily like a raptor.
For sheer spectacle, the initial T-Rex scene and the kitchen scene are some of the best filmed scenes in a blockbuster.