Jurassic Park (1993) Reviews

This ranks up there with the best adventure films every made. Who could not love the first time they've seen this film, and the 'thump' 'thump' tremors of the approaching T-Rex. Crichton wrote an incredible book and Spielberg turned it to life like no other could've done. The special effects were incredible for its time (some scenes do look a bit 'fake' by today's standards) and this film single handedly started up huge marketing storm of dinosaur-anything for many years to come.

The original JP was also helped by having Crichton in control of the screenplay, whereas the sequel, Lost World, though based on a true book sequel, had someone else in charge of the screenplay. And JP3, well its a mess, only based on JP characters, with an entirely Hollywoodized screenplay. So there is definitely a big drop in quality between JP1, 2 and 3. Lost World is watchable, but do yourself a favor and avoid JP3 like the plague.