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Jurassic Park has got to be one of the greatest movies of all time. The directing, animatronics, acting, graphics, and casting were perfect in this movie. The beginning was perfect, no sitting around waiting for action. It opens with a worker being attacked by a velociraptor and Muldoon(Bob Peck) trying to help him.

You meat a character named Nedry(Wayne Knight) who is working for a company that will pay him 1.5 million dollars if he steals the dinosaur embryos.

Then some other stuff happens, yaddah yaddah, anyway, Grant(Sam Neill), Ellie(Laura Dern), Gennaro(Martin Ferraro), Malcolm(Jeff Goldblum), and Hammond(Richard Attenborough), reach the island. The island is owned by Hammond the billionaire. It is a theme park with real dinosaurs. The main four go on a tour with Hammond's grandkids.

Needless to say, the tour goes bad. Nedry steals the embryos, pulls the power and runs off. The five remaining characters are stranded out by the tyrannosaur paddock. Ellie has already gone back to the visitor's center where she, Hammond, Muldoon, and Mr. Arnold(Samuel L. Jackson) try to figure out what Nedry has done.

The tyrannosaurus escapes, eats Gennaro and nearly kills everyone else. Moments later Ellie and Muldoon come to try and find everybody, but they have left. They find Malcolm lying in a pile of hay, and the two cars destroyed.

Now Grant, and the two grandchildren, Lex and Tim, must find their way back to the visitor's center while Ellie, Malcolm, Muldoon, Hammond, and Mr. Arnold try to get the power back.

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There are several ways to critique this movie, each of which would lead you to a different conclusion. It can be critiqued as a story, which is a bit weak. It can be critiqued on development of the characters, which is even weaker. Or it can be critiqued on the basis of being a special effects thrill ride, which is exactly what it is.

This movie was based on the Michael Crichton book, which has a much better story and character development than the movie. However, the book is also much longer and while better in the story development, it is unable to compete with the adrenaline rush you get by seeing what appears to be a full-sized tyrannosaurus rex chasing after a jeep, giant jaws and sharp teeth gnashing inches from a passenger. The special effects in this movie make it the equivalent of a ride at Universal Studios.

The plot device is that John Hammond has been collecting the blood from mosquitoes entombed in amber, and using the DNA from that blood to create dinosaurs. His goal is to put those dinosaurs into an animal park where people can visit for goodly sums of money. Of course, just because you can do something, should you, a question asked by character Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). As it turns out, greed on the part of one of the characters helps in the escape of the critters, including the highly intelligent, carnivorous and agile raptors. While the raptors are somewhat larger than raptors as we know them from paleontology, they are fearsome and scary and designed to give anyone nightmares.

What ensues is a non-stop chase as the perpetually hungry dinosaurs attempt to make a meal of the humans, and the humans do their best to avoid becoming a meal and trying to get off the island. While the plot has a few weaknesses in spots, ignore them. This movie is about the special effects and the chase. Avoid analyzing the events and allow the dinosaurs to be scary. Plug this DVD into your home theater system and crank up the base, just make sure that loose objects are secured because this movie has a lot of bass.

This movie is great entertainment. It is a thrill ride, and you do not examine thrill rides too deeply, you just experience them. Five stars for special effects that were phenomenal when this movie was first released.

Classic move - but get this version for the soundtrack FULL SKULL BABY!
When I originally saw this movie, it was at a movie theater with an excellent sound system. Needless to say, I was somewhat disappointed when it came out on VHS a few years back.
I have since bought this version of the DVD, and boy - what a difference!
The DTS sound track will pick you up - toss you in the air then slam you down on the ground - and then youll ask for more.
Clearly the way the move was mean to be seen / heard and FELT.
If you have at least a decent home theater system, with good low frequency capabilities, then this movie is a must buy. Why hear the T-Rex when you can feel it?
As far as the picture quality - its as good as it gets for DVD. No artifactts, discolorations or distortions at any point during the film.

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