JURASSIC PARK

Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller feature film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the work of fiction of the same name by Michael Crichton. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invites a group of scientists, played by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, to examine the park before its public opening. Interference sets the dinosaurs unfastened, and the technicians and visitors attempt to flee the island.

In Jurassic Park, located on Isla Nublar, an member of staff for the genetic engineering company InGen is attacked and killed, prompting a lawsuit from his family. CEO John Hammond is pressured by his investors to let a safety scrutiny by experts before opening the park. He invites paleontologist Alan Grant, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, and his investors' lawyer Donald Gennaro to carry out the scrutiny. At the park, they learn that InGen produced the dinosaurs by cloning genetic material found in mosquitoes that fed on dinosaur blood, preserved in Dominican amber. The DNA from these samples was spliced with DNA from frogs to fill in sequence gaps. Only female dinosaurs are created in order to avoid uncontrolled reproduction within the park. The team is also shown the inclusion of the Velociraptor, dubbed "raptors", extremely intelligent, aggressive and ferocious predators.

Malcolm, Sattler and Grant meet Hammond's grandchildren, Tim and Alexis "Lex" Murphy, and go on a vehicular tour of the park. Ellie leaves the visit to superintend and take care of a sick Triceratops with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Gerry Harding. A tropical tempest hits the island as most InGen employees leave for the day leaving only Hammond, game warden Robert Muldoon, chief engineer Ray Arnold, and leading computer programmer Dennis Nedry to manage the park and the visitors. Bribed by InGen's rival Lewis Dodgson, Nedry takes an opportunity to shut down the park's security system so he can pilfer dinosaur embryos and deliver them to an informant at the secondary dock. As a result, the safety systems of the whole park are shut down, allowing the Tyrannosaurus to break through the deactivated electric barrier surrounding its pen, devouring Gennaro, attacking Tim and Lex hiding in the car, and wounding Malcolm. Just after they flee the wreck, Sattler and Muldoon arrive. At first, they believe the only survivor of the attack is Malcolm, but upon further search they find footprints belonging to Grant and the kids. Just then, the T-rex returns and Malcolm, Muldoon, and Sattler barely run off her in their Jeep. Meanwhile, Nedry crashes his Jeep and, while trying to lift it, is killed by a Dilophosaurus. Grant, Tim, and Lex spend the night in a tree. While hiking to security the next morning, they notice hatched eggs, indicating that the dinosaurs are actually reproduction. Grant learns that the frog DNA is liable: some species of frog are known to unexpectedly change sex in a single-sex atmosphere.

Arnold tries to hack Nedry's computer to turn the fences back on but fails. When he does not return from the shed, Sattler and Muldoon follow and notice the raptors have escaped, the shutdown having cut off power to the electric fences around their pen. Muldoon comes to know that they are near and tells Sattler to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to distract the raptors and chase them down. Sattler arrives at the shed and manages to reset the breakers when she is chased by a raptor, finds Arnold's corpse, and manages to escape the maintenance shed. Muldoon is attacked and killed by a second raptor while hunting the third raptor. Grant and the kids finally arrive at the Visitor Center, after Tim is electrocuted when the fences turned back on and revived by Grant. Grant leaves them to find the others and finds Sattler first, then joins Malcolm and Hammond in the emergency bunkers.

Raptors enter the Visitor Center and Lex and Tim closely flee them in the kitchen (locking one in the freezer). Grant and Sattler take Lex and Tim to the Control Room where Lex is finally able to restore the Park's computer systems in order to call Hammond to request a helicopter rescue of the survivors. Grant and Sattler hold off a raptor trying to open the door to the computer room, until the power is restored and the electromagnetic locks begin working. With the door secure, the raptor breaks into the room through the window, and the unit climbs up into the ceiling crawlspace and arrives at the Visitors Center rotunda, help comes from an unlikely source: the Tyrannosaurus abruptly appears and strikes the raptors. The T-rex and raptors fight while Grant, Sattler, Lex, and Tim flee. The four escape, climb into Hammond and Malcolm's jeep and leave. Grant says he will not endorse the park, a choice with which Hammond concurs. Meanwhile inside the T-rex tears apart one of the raptors and kills the other by hurling it at a Tyrannosaurus skeleton on display. As the unit fly away in the helicopter, the children fall asleep beside Grant, who thoughtfully looks out the window over the horizon at a flock of birds flying nearby, the current relatives of the dinosaurs that once lived.

Jurassic Park became the most financially successful picture released worldwide as of that time, beating Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Based upon a sample of 33 reviews Jurassic Park bagged 83% on the tomatometer.