Jurassic Park IMAX 3D Review

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Wayne Knight, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck

Certificate: PG

Running Time: 127 minutes

Synopsis: During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

When a worker is fatally injured at Jurassic Park, John Hammond is forced to seek endorsements from experts in the fields of paleontology (Sam Neill) and paleobotany (Laura Dern) in order to satisfy his lawyers, represented in the field by Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero). Together with chaos-theorist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and Hammonds’ grandchildren (Joseph Mazzello; Ariana Richards) they set off on a tour of the park. Things go wrong when an impending storm strands them opposite the Tyrannosaur paddock, and a disgruntled employee (Wayne Knight) sabotages the park’s security systems.

A remastered JURASSIC PARK may have only been unleashed on cinemas in 2011, but the dinosaurs that John Hammond bred is nevertheless back for an encore in eye-popping, extinction-defying 3D. Previously screened at the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival, JURASSIC PARK IMAX 3D utlises the latest technology to show one of the finest blockbuster movies ever at its very best.

Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK would still impress on VHS; famous for containing only fifteen minutes of actual dinosaur footage (only six of which involve CGI), the film is a masterclass in showmanship and suggestion that that will leave you in awe regardless of picture quality and sound capability. Indeed, the film is just as memorable for its quick-fire script, sensitive performances and rousing John Williams score as it is for Stan Winston’s animatronics and ILM’s special effects.

And yet, there is no denying that JURASSIC PARK is best experienced on the big screen, and the latest IMAX release offers audiences the chance to witness it on the largest scale yet. The new format is spectacular from the outset, but it is the arrival of Hammond at Allan Grant and Ellie Sattler’s excavation site that first takes your breath away. The 3D works exceptionally well too, the transfer particularly impressing during the Galliminus stampede and Tyrannosaur chase. The dinosaur calls and soundtrack obviously sound phenomenal too.

Having waited 65 million years, now that it’s been made you really can’t see JURASSIC PARK often enough. This is Spielberg’s masterpiece at its biggest, boldest and best; so while you might have seen it before, you can be sure that you’ve never seen JURASSIC PARK quite like this. Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend.