1993 · adventure · sci-fi
Jurassic Park
Directed by Steven Spielberg2h 7m1993
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.
Our read: Jurassic Park (1993) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded adventure · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Jurassic Park counts for a challenge
Neutral, breathless, measured adventure / sci-fi, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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