The Knight character, an overwritten and overplayed blubbering fool, drives his Jeep madly through the storm and thrashes about in the forest. The plot to steal the embryos is handled on the level of a TV sitcom. Meanwhile, a tropical storm hits the island, the beasts knock over the fences, and Neill is left to shepherd the kids back to safety while they're hunted by towering meat-eaters. Also along are Attenborough's grandchildren, and a lawyer, who is the first to be eaten by a dinosaur.Īttenborough wants the visitors to have a preview of his new park, where actual living prehistoric animals live in enclosures behind tall steel fences, helpfully labeled "10,000 volts." The visitors set off on a tour in remote-controlled utility vehicles, which stall when an unscrupulous employee ( Wayne Knight) shuts down the park's computer program so he can smuggle out some dinosaur embryos. But there was an opportunity here to make his character grand and original, colorful and oversize, and instead he comes across as unfocused and benign.Īs the film opens, two dinosaur experts ( Sam Neill and Laura Dern) arrive at the park, along with a mathematician played by Jeff Goldblum whose function in the story is to lounge about uttering vague philosophical imprecations. Richard Attenborough, as the millionaire who builds the park, is given a few small dimensions - he loves his grandchildren, he's basically a good soul, he realizes the error of tampering with nature. The human characters are a ragtag bunch of half-realized, sketched-in personalities, who exist primarily to scream, utter dire warnings, and outwit the monsters.
It's clear, seeing this long-awaited project, that Spielberg devoted most of his effort to creating the dinosaurs.
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