Movie #104: Jurassic Park

Movie #: 104
Movie Title: Jurassic Park
Year Released: 1993

Director: Steven Spielberg
Notable Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, B.D. Wong, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards

Short Description: During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: #60
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #60
FlickChart.com: #86



Date Watched: 6/10/2016

Grade: 5 out of 5 (Exceptional)

Rationale: Jurassic Park is the epitome of watching your childhood imagination come to life. Even for a movie that’s now 23 years old, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, like T-Rex and Velociraptors, look unbelievably real. As great as the visuals are, and they are extraordinarily impressive, the sounds and story are two works of pure art. John Williams may be the best composer Hollywood has ever seen and the iconic theme he created will live forever. As for the story, it would be one thing to have any old screenwriter adapt Michael Crichton’s novel into a movie, but Crichton himself adapted his own novel and hit a home run. The book Jurassic Park is markedly different than the movie but that’s never a problem because the adaptation came from the mind of a master of suspense and thrills. No one could have done a better job than Michael Crichton.