Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience Reviews
Top CriticThe enthralling man-vs.-nature parable based on the late Michael Crichton's best-selling novel hasn't aged one bit.
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.
I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement.
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| Original Score: 3/4
This movie doesn't just stand the test of time, it transcends it.
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| Original Score: 4/4
"Jurassic Park" remains an absolute thrill from a Spielberg in top form: Funny, scary, fast-moving and full of just-right details.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
"Jurassic Park" was impressive in 1993. Twenty years later, it's flawless.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Spielberg has gone on to weightier and more prestigious projects, but this thrill ride is one of his best and a masterpiece of the genre.
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| Original Score: 4/4
That T. rex is worth the wait, but the wait itself is even more memorable.
For all the ingenuity of the movie's engineering, Jurassic Park doesn't have the imagination -- or the courage -- to take us any place we haven't been a thousand times before. It's just a creature feature on amphetamines.
Do the dinosaurs work? Indeed they do. Does anything else? Not really.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The earthshaking footfalls of these lizard-kings are palpable and terrifying. Spielberg's crew of dinosaur-effects artists has conjured up a Mesozoic menagerie whose realism outdoes anything in cinema history.
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| Original Score: 3/4
This is as close as any of us is likely to get to witnessing life in prehistoric times.
The characters aren't much more well-defined than the anonymous victims of a teen horror movie... The dinosaur effects, however, are absolutely stunning, and sometimes so natural that one even forgets to be impressed.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Spielberg's peerless twin gift has always been for making the fantastic seem real (Close Encounters, E.T., the Indiana Jones trilogy) and the real fantastic (Jaws).
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| Original Score: A-
The well-selected cast is winningly sympathetic and entertainingly idiosyncratic.
There's more soul to be found in any Kong close-up than in this film's overplayed reactions.
Spielberg is still supreme as an action director, and when the T Rex makes beefburger of the jeep, or the vicious 'Raptors stalk their human prey, the film inspires wonder and awe.
You won't believe your eyes.
| Original Score: 3/4
Mr. Spielberg has great fun with every last growl and rumble signaling the approach of danger...
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
May be one-dimensional and even clunky in story and characterization, but definitely delivers where it counts, in excitement, suspense and the stupendous realization of giant reptiles.
You want great dinosaurs, you got great dinosaurs.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Jurassic Park does for live-action critters what Who Framed Roger Rabbit did for toons. In that sense, it's a cinematic landmark, but in terms of plot and character, it's about as well developed as Godzilla.
This is Jaws with huge, scaly ridges. At times, it's more frightening.
In the end, Jurassic Park succeeds because it's good entertainment.
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| Original Score: 3/4
