A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement.
– Tom Russo,
Boston Globe,
4 Apr 2013
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The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
5 Apr 2013
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The enthralling man-vs.-nature parable based on the late Michael Crichton's best-selling novel hasn't aged one bit.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
5 Apr 2013
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Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
8 Apr 2013
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Jurassic Park is an astonishing success in one sense and one sense only: It is the monster of all monster movies, guaranteed to challenge weak bladders, flutter heartbeats and win automatic Oscars for the [tech crew].