Welcome to....Jurassic Park!

Hey guys! It's that time of the year where we celebrate our nation's Independence. What better movie to watch than Jurassic Park? You totally thought I was going to say Independence Day didn't you? Yeah, well, this movie's much better. Inspired by the best selling novel of the same name and written by Micheal Crichton, this movie has some similarities. Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill and Lara Dern, welcome to Jurassic Park.

This ride looks like it's going to be fun.

The Story: John Hammond, CEO of InGen, and billionaire, is in the process of creating a cross between an amusement park and zoo filled with dinosaurs. However, before he opens the park he invites Dr(s) Grant and Ellie Sattler(paleontologists), Ian Malcolm (a Chaos Theorist) and Donald Genaro (blood sucking lawyer) to "assess" the park. At first, everything seems to be fine.The dinosaurs are there, things seem to be well kept, the lab assistants are happy, etc. There's one problem though, Malcolm doesn't believe everything will go according to plan and chaos will ensue. Genaro, the lawyer, is ecstatic and thinks the park will be a hit. Oh and Hammond's grand kids show up too. But as you know, if something goes wrong, everything goes wrong. Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) shuts down the park in order to steal dinosaur embryos for InGens competition. Things go from bad to worse when the parks electric fences go down and the dinosaurs learn that they're free. Dinosaurs on the loose can only mean one thing. Chaos. People become the hunted and dinosaurs end up at the top of the food chain. It's a fight for survival and who knows what the end game might be.

The Good:
This movie is a cinematic masterpiece. This movie made CGI a possibility though, it's not always a good thing at times... These special effects are just astoundingly awesome. You feel the terror when the T-Rex tries to eat small children in a Ford. The performance from the actors is excellent, while the story keeps you on the edge of your seat. Some of the best lines are said in this movie too. "She doesn't want to eat, she wants to hunt!" "Life finds a way." And the most famous line in movie history, "Clever girl." This movie should be what movies now should strive to be. It's certainly aged well too. I mean, the CGI's not great, but the robotic dinosaurs definitely add a certain realism to the movie. Other movies like Phantom Menace for example look like garbage compared to this. And P.M. came out 6 years after Jurassic Park! This movie is an almost perfect movie and that's hard to come by nowadays.

I'm sorry I mentioned that crappy Star Wars movie, I really am.

The Bad:
Now, this is more like nitpicking, since it's really hard to find "major" problems in this film. Muldoon, for example is an expert on predatory animals and used to run safari expeditions. In the book, this guy blew off a velociraptor's  leg with a grenade launcher. In the movie, well, he gets bamfoozled by said dinosaur. I realize the raptors are smart, but you'd think with a bunch of hunting experience, Muldoon could at least trick a raptor or two. Lex, Hammond's granddaughter, is deemed a "hacker" meaning Hollywood thinks hackers are mystical beings who can use magic on computers. In one scene, when everyone is trying to get the park working again, Lex uses a computer. She doesn't "hack" anything, she just figures out the computer like a normal person would. That scene, while intense, is pointless when it comes to the "hacking" thing. Other than that, just minor things.

Overall:
Jurassic Park is cinematic perfection. It keeps the pacing nice and tidy, the characters are well written and believable, and the effects are so lovely. While the book is better, the movie does a pretty good job at keeping most of the similarities between the book and film. If you've seen Jurassic World  and liked it, I suggest you see the movie that started it all. You won't be disappointed.
4.5 velociraptors in the freezer out of 5. 

P.S. I will review Jurassic World. Eventually. I've already seen it, but I had a bad case of Fanboy-itis. I'll see it again to give you an (mostly) unbiased review.