If the ending seems abrupt, it's because the eventual fate of the park's dinosaurs was discussed earlier and viewers need to be attentive enough to pick it up. They're not evil, only hungry.Ĭritics may scoff that Jurassic Park is merely a special effects horror show, but Crichton's screenplay (polished by David Koepp) is a thinking person's thriller that takes time to consider the moral and scientific implications of cloning dinosaurs. Even in their most terrifying moments - an attack by a tyrannosaurus rex on a rainy road or a 'raptor pursuit in a kitchen - these dinosaurs are also oddly sympathetic. With his players in place, Spielberg mounts one spectacular set piece after another as the dinosaurs terrorize the tourists by doing what comes naturally hunting for survival. Here, it's exhilarating because Crichton, and now Spielberg, aims for the pit of your stomach by way of your mind, rather than your heart. Spielberg's uncanny knack for manipulating an audience can be irritating when he's saccharine ( The Color Purple, Always) or manic (most of the Indiana Jones trilogy). Watching Jurassic Park, one gets the same feeling of wonderment, glee and old-fashioned fright that moviegoers must have felt 60 years ago when King Kong roared out of the jungle and scaled the Empire State Building.Ĭrichton's novel - like the Peter Benchley potboiler Jaws before it - is a pop culture study in primal fear, with mankind confronted by monsters that time and nature can't control. As he did in Jaws, Spielberg has crafted a man-vs.-nature masterpiece with admirable logic, darkly funny violence and enthralling state-of-the-art special effects. expectations have been laid to rest - better yet, trampled - by the dinosaur denizens of Jurassic Park, an amazing adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestseller about an amusement park where the amusements run amok. They ignored the fact that his screen triumphs began with the perversely funny horror of Jaws.įinally, those E.T. poked his heart-shaped head around the corner (and became the highest-grossing film ever), audiences have demanded more warm fuzzies from Spielberg and felt betrayed if he didn't provide them.
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Perhaps the worst mistake Steven Spielberg has made during his career was directing the most popular movie of all time.