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08/18/08
Jurassic Park (1993)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 30 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus:
Jurassic Park is a spectacle of special effects and life-like animatronics, with some of Spielberg's best sequences of sustained awe and sheer terror since Jaws.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 11, 1993 Wide
Synopsis: Steven Spielberg directed this blockbuster thriller based on the popular book by Michael Crichton. Millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) asks two dinosaur experts (Laura Dern and Sam Neill) to act as consultants on his entrepreneurial endeavor--an amusement park with... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: David Koepp, Michael Crichton
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: David Koepp, Michael Crichton
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
Composer: John Williams
Reviews
Spectacle triumphs over sense, but with effects this effective resistance is futile.
03/04/08
Top Critic
The well-selected cast is winningly sympathetic and entertainingly idiosyncratic.
06/05/07
This is an exhilarating, sometimes terrifying monster of a movie that, once it gets you in its clutches, won't put you down again until the closing credits start to roll.
06/05/07
Top Critic
There's more soul to be found in any Kong close-up than in this film's overplayed reactions.
06/05/07
Spielberg is still supreme as an action director, and when the T Rex makes beefburger of the jeep, or the vicious 'Raptors stalk their human prey, the film inspires wonder and awe.
06/24/06
An innovative, ingenious and spectacular sci-fi adventure. The special effects are truly dazzling.
03/04/06
Mr. Spielberg has great fun with every last growl and rumble signaling the approach of danger...
05/20/03
Top Critic
Fads may come and go, but dinosaurs will always be cool... a fact for which Jurassic Park should be eternally grateful.
12/04/02
True, the dialogue and performances are feeble, but the thing is basically no more -- and no less -- than a nifty monster movie that delivers crackerjack thrills.
04/17/01
May be one-dimensional and even clunky in story and characterization, but definitely delivers where it counts, in excitement, suspense and the stupendous realization of giant reptiles.
02/13/01
Top Critic
So the script and the performances aren't exactly Oscar material, but it scarcely matters given that the real stars here are the ILM-created dinosaurs, a miracle of modern moviemaking.
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