Still holds up today, a landmark film in the 90's.

Rating: 8/10 (4 December 2014)

Jurassic Park.
It's nearing 21 years now, since the release of this film. My goodness it still holds up. Now this film was released in June of 1993, I was born in March of 1993, never saw it it theaters, but I saw it in VHS and man I loved it even as a child. I will point out however, I saw The Lost World: Jurassic Park first with my aunt as a youngster in theaters, then I saw this film.
In my youth, when I compare this one to the second film, I recall being terrified and being on the edge in The Lost World, but with Jurassic Park, I felt a sense of wonderment and excitement. Having seen the second one first, I felt this one, even with some suspenseful moments, is a little lighter in tone, and has a more subtle approach.
All the actors do the best they can in this film and they all do a commendable job. They're not very fleshed out, aside from John Hammond portrayed by Richard Attenborough, founder and owner of Ingen and Jurassic Park. More often than not we get good moments where the trio of leads get to show off their personality.
Sam Neill is great as the calm, collective, and stern Dr. Alan Grant, who has a fascination with dinosaurs and dislikes kids, much to his annoyance Hammond's grandkids Lex(Ariana Richards) and Tim(Joseph Mazzello) who are great by the way, one of the few films where I actually enjoyed child actors and their performances, are also at the park and is stuck with Grant after narrowly escaping an incident with the fierce T-Rex. Laura Dern's character Dr. Ellie Sattler has a nice banter with Dr. Grant and the romance is very subtle which I admired. Sattler also holds her own against the Velociraptors in the film. Jeff Goldblum is awesome as Dr. Ian Malcolm a mathematician who specializes in chaos theory. He provides some of the most funniest moments within the film.
Wayne Knight, Samuel L. Jackson, and Bob Peck also have decent supporting roles that are served for the plot. Knight and Jackson also provide humor in the film, and Peck provides and fills in the typical tough guy, as well as being a Velociraptor specialist.
Now lets be honest here, as great as the cast is, it provides some of the film's slowest moments. Its the dinosaurs that make this film work. Director Steven Spielberg, Stan Winston(RIP) and his crew wisely uses practical dinosaur mechanics and visual cgi to bring these creatures to life. Think about this it's been nearly 21 years since its release and the visuals still look great. Some would argue maybe even up to par or better than most cgi-fest blockbusters released today. Spielberg also uses the dinosaurs very effectively for every scene they're in. The Velociraptors are smart and deadly and provides the film's scariest moments. The T-Rex scene is also effective sending chills by your spine. The Brachiosaurus scene in the beginning, combined with John Williams's powerful score, brings the scene to life, quite literally. It is so powerful that it can bring goosebumps to your skin and make you feel as if you're there with Dr. Grant and Sattler actually witnessing a real dinosaur right in front of you.
Jurassic Park is not a typical brainless blockbuster. Not to say that a brainless blockbuster can't be fun or enjoyable, but Jurassic Park is more than that. It has science in it that is plausible to a certain degree that you can easily follow. It's not convoluted at all by any means and every dinosaur sequence rocks, and it'll make you want more. Yes some of the technological aspects in the film involving computers, cell phones, and whatnot are very outdated, but even so the film has not aged a bit.
8.6/10