The Special Effects Masterpiece

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2003)

Jurassic Park was highlighted by its spectacular special effects. It recharged the interest in big-budget special effects flix, and proved a simple hollywood rule: it doesn't have to be good, as long as it's good enough.
The special effects in this movie cannot be challenged. The perfect use of animatronics and CGI (it revolutionized the CGI industry in hollywood) is unsurpassed these 10 years later. It sparked a million knockoffs, whether in genre (dino-movies) or special effects (every God-awful pixel of CGI puked out by the hollywood braintrust)-- for further info on bad CGI, be sure to catch the upcoming HULK movie). They remain some of the greatest (if not THE greatest) special effects in cinematic history. The story, however, is pitifully inferior to the book. The characters are unimportant in the movie, taking backseat to Steven Speilberg's Dino-F/X. Jeff Goldblum's character, who was pivotal to the book (as he spoke for us, the reader), served no greater purpose than comedic value in this movie. Thus, it garners the low rating of 6 stars I gave it.