Groundbreaking look at Dinosaurs and cloning

Rating: 8/10 (30 May 2001)

When Jurassic Park was released in June 1993 we got a look at dinosaurs in a whole different view. The film had incredible special effects, but a movie cannot make it on special effects alone. The plot of this movie really carried the special effects. Most of the time it's the other way around. The plot stuck very closely to the book except for a couple of character issues. People got to see dinosaurs not just as giant lizard monsters but as living surviving animals. Ive read that there wasn't much character development. There was some development, but the development wasn't supposed to be on the characters it was supposed to be on cloning and the dinosaurs. The acting was very good, especially characters such as Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant. Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum did very good jobs of displaying these characters. Also, the late Bob Peck who was Robert Muldoon in the film gave incredible intensity to his character. For people who have forgotten the main plot, this movie is about a rich entrepreneur named John Hammond who has cloned dinosaurs and has built a tourist park on a remote island of the coast of Costa Rica. His corporate lawyer has concerns about the park and John invites a paleontologist, paleobotanist, theoretical mathematician, and his two grandchildren to experience and tour the island.
Jurassic Park's security system brakes down and the dinosaurs are let free.Then the tourists have to try to get jurassic park working again and get off of the island. So in all I have to say this is an incredible movie with a great special effects and a interesting cast and plot. ***1/2 out of ****