Jurassic Park (1993)

Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it based on 17,624 votes. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.

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. Wikipedia ↗

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Michael Crichton's 1990 novel. The film follows paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, played by Sam Neill, paleobotanist Dr.

Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern, and mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum, who are invited to preview a theme park populated by genetically engineered dinosaurs on a remote island off the coast of Costa Rica. When the park's security systems fail during a tropical storm, the visitors must survive as the prehistoric predators roam free.

Jurassic Park was a watershed moment in visual effects history, representing the first time that photorealistic computer-generated creatures shared the screen convincingly with live actors. Industrial Light & Magic's dinosaurs — created through a groundbreaking combination of CGI and Stan Winston's animatronic creatures — were so convincing that they fundamentally changed the film industry's approach to visual effects, essentially ending the era of stop-motion animation for creature work in major films. Steven Spielberg's masterful control of suspense, particularly in set pieces like the T-Rex attack on the stalled vehicles and the velociraptors in the kitchen, demonstrated that CGI spectacle was most effective when deployed in service of genuine filmmaking craft.

The film earned $914 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time until Titanic surpassed it in 1997. John Williams's majestic score, particularly the soaring theme that accompanies the characters' first glimpse of the dinosaurs, became one of the most recognized pieces of film music ever composed. Jurassic Park won three Academy Awards for its technical achievements and launched a franchise spanning multiple decades.