Jurassic Park
Academy Award × 3·National Film Registry
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A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
What critics thought
Jurassic Park arrived as a genuine technical landmark, with its dinosaur effects drawing almost universal astonishment — but contemporary critics were sharply divided on whether the film was anything more than a spectacular delivery mechanism. The central fault line was character and story: most reviewers found the human figures thin and the adaptation weaker than the source novel, while a minority argued that complaint missed the point entirely.
“a true movie milestone, presenting awe- and fear-inspiring sights never before seen on the screen”
Janet Maslin·The New York Times
“colossal entertainment—the eye-popping, mind-bending, kick-out-the-jams thrill ride of summer and probably the year”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“the movie is lacking other qualities that it needs even more, such as a sense of awe and wonderment, and strong human story values”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“The complaints over Jurassic Park's lack of story and character sound a little off the point”
Henry Sheehan·Sight & Sound
“quite simply one of the greatest blockbusters of all time”
Caroline Westbrook·Empire
Genres
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven Spielberg
StarringSam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck
ComposerJohn Williams
Jurassic Park
Academy Award × 3·National Film Registry
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
What critics thought
Jurassic Park arrived as a genuine technical landmark, with its dinosaur effects drawing almost universal astonishment — but contemporary critics were sharply divided on whether the film was anything more than a spectacular delivery mechanism. The central fault line was character and story: most reviewers found the human figures thin and the adaptation weaker than the source novel, while a minority argued that complaint missed the point entirely.
“a true movie milestone, presenting awe- and fear-inspiring sights never before seen on the screen”
Janet Maslin·The New York Times
“colossal entertainment—the eye-popping, mind-bending, kick-out-the-jams thrill ride of summer and probably the year”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“the movie is lacking other qualities that it needs even more, such as a sense of awe and wonderment, and strong human story values”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“The complaints over Jurassic Park's lack of story and character sound a little off the point”
Henry Sheehan·Sight & Sound
“quite simply one of the greatest blockbusters of all time”
Caroline Westbrook·Empire
Genres
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven Spielberg
StarringSam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck
ComposerJohn Williams
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