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Jurassic Park (1993)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Movie review
From Time Out London
No 3D enhancements or spiced-up SFX, just a straight digital restoration for Steven Spielberg’s multiplex marvel, the film which established CGI as the dominant force in mainstream moviemaking. You know the plot – crumbly billionaire Dickie Attenborough resurrects prehistoric lizards for a fast buck, nature rebels, Sam Neill and assorted brats attempt to avoid becoming lunch.But time cannot dull the jawdropping impact of the film’s key sequences: the first brontosaurus encounter, the T-rex chase, the velociraptor attack. Famously, the film was edited concurrently with the shooting of ‘Schindler’s List’, and one can’t help thinking that it must have been as much of an escape for its director as it went on to be for his audience. Either way, this is one of the peaks of modern blockbuster cinema: a little rough around the edges, perhaps (that ultra-convenient ending is still a let-down), but crammed with invention, wit, skill and, as usual for Spielberg, more than its fair share of perfectly judged, off-kilter character moments.
Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out London Issue 2144: 22-28 Sept, 2011
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- Richard Freeman said...
- Posted on Feb 18 2010 19:01 Tyrannosaurus actually had vey accute vistion akin to a bird of prey. It was also the most powerfull and muscular of the flesh eating dinosaurs and would have ripped spinosaurus limb from limb (if they had lived in the same time and place) whatever the third films says.
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- ANNA said...
- Posted on Sep 26 2007 13:49 THE ORIGINAL AND BEST! AS A FIRST THE ANIMATION WAS FAB, BUT LIKE SO MANY BLOCKBUSTERS IT SPAWNED SEQUELS THAT ADDED NOTHING TO THE ORIGINAL.
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Cast & crew
Director: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R Molen
Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck, Samuel L Jackson full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Rated: PG
Duration: 127 mins
UK Release: Sep 23 2011
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