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Name: Jurassic Park
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: adventure, science-fiction
Released: 1993
Duration: 2 h 7 min
Rating: 8.2

Jurassic Park has an iRankMovies score of 81.3/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Jurassic Park (1993)

An adventure 65 million years in the making.

Release:1993

Runtime:2h 7m

Country:United States

Director:Steven Spielberg

Language:English

Genre

AdventureScience Fiction

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Keywords

Exotic IslandIslandTriceratopsBrontosaurusElectric FenceDnaTyrannosaurus RexPaleontology

iRank81

Jurassic Park rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.2/10· 1.2M votes

Rotten Tomatoes91%

Metacritic68%

TMDb8/10· 18K votes

With 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.2/10 on IMDb and 68/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Jurassic Park

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

Cast of Jurassic Park

Sam Neill
as Grant
Laura Dern
as Ellie
Jeff Goldblum
as Malcolm
Richard Attenborough
as Hammond
Bob Peck
as Muldoon
Martin Ferrero
as Gennaro
BD Wong
as Wu
Joseph Mazzello
as Tim
Ariana Richards
as Lex
Samuel L. Jackson
as Arnold
Wayne Knight
as Nedry
Gerald R. Molen
as Harding

Jurassic Park facts

Budget: $63M
Box office: $920.1M
Collection: Jurassic Park Collection

Our take on Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg's 1993 adventure imagines a wealthy entrepreneur who secretly builds a theme park stocked with living dinosaurs recreated from prehistoric DNA. Before opening, he invites a handful of experts and his two grandchildren to tour the island and reassure nervous investors, but the visit turns when the security systems fail and the animals break loose. Blending science-fiction ideas with old-fashioned adventure thrills, the film balances awe at the creatures against the danger of controlling them. Paced for wonder and suspense in equal measure, it remains a crowd-pleasing spectacle. A great choice for viewers who want big-screen scale and a cautionary edge about tampering with nature.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Groundbreaking visual effects created iconic imagery still influential decades later
•Dinosaur encounters balance wonder, terror, and spectacular action set pieces perfectly
•Character relationships ground adventure with genuine stakes and believable human dynamics

What the audience disliked

•Certain plot conveniences strain credibility of premise though rarely break immersion
•Supporting characters receive minimal development beyond functional plot advancement roles

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