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I was never a big fan of Jurassic Park at all as a child but when I rewatched it about 2 years ago for the first time in about 5 years, I loved it a lot more! I find Jurassic Park one of the most overrated films of all time as well as one of the most successful blockbusters of all time. Jurassic Park is a film that has been named a family film by magazines and websites but, to be honest, I think the film is too scary for that status (like Lord Of The Rings). Jurassic Park is one of those films that children of the 90s would grow up with like Star Wars in the 70s and Harry Potter in the 00s. I would call this an educational film especially those who are archaeologists or who are interested in that subject. Jurassic Park is regarded as a landmark of CGI. There were many positive reviews. Most of them treasured the effects but in some of the other elements of the film were mixed.
Sam Neill's performance as Dr. Alan Grant was awesome! Grant is a world reowned paleontologist excavating Velociraptor fossils in the Montana Badlands. He dislikes children, frightening one with a talon of a raptor, but he soon has to protect Hammond's grandchildren. Laura Dern delivers a good performance as Dr. Ellie Sattler as well. She is a paleobotanist and graduate student of Grant. Dern also met Horner and visited the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, learning to prepare a fossil. Jeff Goldblum delivers the best performance in this film as Dr. Ian Malcolm. I could see Goldblum's deep interest in this film because he is a big fan of dinosaurs. Malcolm is a mathematician and chaos theorist. He warns of the danger of resurrecting dinosaurs and becomes Hammond's main opposition. He clearly shows that he fancies Dr. Sattler. Richard Attenborough was awesome in this film too as John Hammond. He is the CEO of InGen and architect of Jurassic Park. Samuel L. Jackson makes a supporting appearance in this film too.
Every decade since he started his career, he has created a very successful blockbuster (as far as gross revenue is concerned). Jaws in the 70s, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in the 80s, Jurassic Park in the 90s and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull in the 00s. I would probably say that Jurassic Park and E.T. are equally successful. Spielberg has a thing for creating franchises on a kind of archaeology. Spielberg originally cast Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum but Sigourney Weaver was his first choice for Dr. Ellie Sattler but Dern was cast instead. Jurassic Park won all 3 Oscars that it was nominated for: Best Sound, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects.
Overall, Jurassic Park is a very intense powerful film to watch. It is wildly overrated but apart from that, it is another Spielberg masterpiece!
9/10
