Jurassic Park

1993 • 126 minutes
4.7
1.59K reviews
91%
Tomatometer
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About this movie

Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler Laura Dern) -- as they are invited by eccentric millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on an island off Costa Rica. By cloning DNA harvested from pre-historic insects, Hammond has been able to create living dinosaurs for his new Jurassic Park, an immense animal preserve housing real brachiosaurs, dilophosaurs, triceratops, velociraptors, and a Tyrannosaur Rex. Accompanied by cynical scientist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who is obsessed with chaos theory, and Hammond's two grandchildren (Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello), they are sent on a tour through Hammond's new resort in computer controlled touring cars. But as a tropical storm hits the island, knocking out the power supply, and an unscrupulous employee (Wayne Knight) sabotages the system so that he can smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the park, the dinosaurs start to rage out of control. Grant then has to bring Hammond's grandchildren back to safety as the group is pursued by the gigantic man-eating beasts.
1993 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
1.59K reviews
VGNSK8RQU33N
February 24, 2019
The original, BEST and really, the only one worth watching. Maybe #2 too, for mindless action. Book reviewers don't get filmmaking: Spielberg & co did outstanding work, + the characters are more likable than in the book where Hammond deserves a worse fate than he gets, and Dr M somehow survives a broken leg, a coma, being left in a building that raptors are breaching *and a nuclear strike on the island to star in book 2, which bears no resemblance to the film 🤔. Watch, read, skip the sequels
PKM Media
June 7, 2020
I remember seeing this when it came out in the cinema and even as a youngster I was mesmerised by the incredible effects, action set pieces and the musical score...Easily the best of the series and with some top notch performances...the use of CGI is expertly implemented, using it for wide shots and animatronics for close ups
A Google user
September 11, 2012
It has hardly aged at all in 20 years! Excellent entertainment, great graphics and auto-ero... animatronics, atmosphere etc. The only compromise was the 480p (but its not bad).