He loved to regurgitate all his research to the reader around the barest bones of melodramatic plot, along with some supposedly incisive “take” that was sometimes problematic - the anti-Japanese sentiments of Rising Sun, or the premise of Disclosure that men are just as liable to be victims of sexual harassment at the hands of powerful women. Nothing is less inherently cinematic than people talking to each other (Hitchcock famously said movies didn’t really require dialogue at all), and it’s part of the reason why most of the movies made from Crichton novels - Sphere, Congo, Disclosure - are so awful. Whatever menace Spielberg evokes in the opening dissipates over the next 40 minutes as he crams in reams of Michael Crichton’s exposition from the novel - the first of many occasions the director drains the suspense in this manner. The main problem with Jurassic Park emerges in the next scene as men discuss insurance and divorce and inspections. While the incident may not be altogether convincing, at least it’s sufficiently tense.
The worker only finds himself in this position because he has to climb up and close the gate manually - yet everything else in the state-of-the-art preserve is automated? The scene memorably climaxes with a park worker tumbling into the pen to become dino dinner, but the set-up feels contrived. The filmmaking is more chaotic, less fluid than we’re used to from him, and the arrangement of amethyst-tinted flood lights in the dark evokes similar compositions at the finales of better Spielberg movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The action is compelling, but not quite up to Spielberg’s usual standards. Things feel amiss from the opening scene in which a mysterious dinosaur is delivered to the park preserve. Universal Jurassic Park often feels uncinematic But looking at it without the lens of nostalgia or the excitement over digital dinosaurs that fueled its initial success, I argue that it doesn’t hold up well at all.
Yes, it earned solid reviews at the time (along with grumblings by Roger Ebert and others), and, yes, it remains treasured by ’90s kids.
Great dinosaurs distract from the weak stuffĪnd yet, it’s really not all that surprising that the films that sprung from the source have all been of negligible quality, given that the original 1993 Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg from the bestseller by Michael Crichton, really wasn’t very good to begin with.
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