JURASSIC PARK-4K Ultra-HD - MOVIE [Blu-ray] [1993]

After the changes made for the 3D version of Jurassic Park, I was very wary of what would be in store for me when getting the 4K UHD version. Thankfully, this looks nothing like that.The 2012 re-release made a bunch of digital alterations, removing various mistakes (things like visible wires, lighting equipment and somebody's hand) and changed the colour timing significantly to be overly warm, almost like it was tinted brown in places. While it'd be nice to have some of those digital fixes in, I'm much happier having the sky actually look blue! Flesh tones are natural, there's no colour wash across the entire frame, unlike what seemed to have been done with Jurassic Park 3D. High Dynamic Range brings a wonderful vibrancy to the jungles, colours do take on a slightly warmer feeling in places, but only where appropriate. The labs feel cold and clinical, faithfully representing the original filmed lighting.Make no mistake, this doesn't look like a film shot yesterday. And that's a good thing. Modern movies are awash in digital colour grading that makes everything look drab and the same. There was a legit concern that applying HDR to classic movies might result in that same feeling. Thankfully not! The colours are true to life and there's been only a light scrubbing away of grain.It's interesting revisiting films that used CGI back in the 90s, since it really does show how far the medium has come. Whilst the dinosaurs are still largely convincing (the main road attack is awe-inspiring), there's in-built limitations to that technology that show up more and more the better your display is.Computers back then couldn't represent the full range of colour, HDR was decades away. So, moments like the T. Rex jeep chase which deal with a lot of dark, shallow focus shots.. they tend to have a lot of colour banding if your eyes drift to where they shouldn't. The shadows look grey instead of properly dark, the background looks like the cutout filter in Photoshop. It'd all blur together so as to be unnoticeable on lower res releases, but in 4K, if you're sitting close, the colour contrast issues can sometimes be distracting. That said, there's probably less than 4 minutes of CGI in the whole film, and the shots go by so fast that you won't really notice unless you're actively looking for faults. The scenes are still full of suspense and the animations are great, it's just a pity that we've now passed the limit of how good Jurassic Park could possibly look without them actually going back and re-doing the shots.The soundtrack is practically flawless. Presented in thundering DTS:X, Jurassic Park has never sounded better than this remix. The roars are earth shaking, but even the minor details like the rain chattering on different surfaces or the breaths of the raptors stalking around are crystal clear and realistically positioned in around you. I have to ding it for not being 100% accurate though, I'm not a huge fan of studios dubbing in new sounds to old movies (with race exceptions). There's some distracting wheezy snarls in the kitchen scene that weren't there originally, and which feel like they should be further in the background instead of sounding so close. It's the one rough spot in an otherwise fantastic audio presentation.I'd say that die hard fans of the film should definitely pick this up, it's a marked improvement on the original blu ray, with quite pleasing picture and sound. The image quality is not so massive a leap as The Lost World's 4k release, but many scenes do benefit from the HDR, with closeups of the actors in particular looking great. I would honestly still recommend the old blu ray to most people though, the lower resolution "noisier" image actually seemed to camouflage some of the CGI seams and the special features are identical to what's included here (and they were all on one disc before).

What can I say about this movie that hasn't been said before? It's a classic!I remember watching it in the cinema when I was younger (gosh, I feel old now). It was an amazing experience. I still love this movie all these years later and even though I know what will happen, I become captivated all over again.Is it perfect? Of course not. There are a couple of clichéd scenes, and we know now that the dinosaurs probably didn't look like they do in Jurassic Park. The movie, however, sparked an interest in paleontology and archeology in many viewers, especially the younger generation, and that is a good thing.If you haven't yet seen the movie, it is about a wealthy gentleman who has designed a theme park that he feels will fill the world with wonder. Because of circumstances, however, he needs the approval of specialists in different fields in order to continue his project. These specialists, along with a lawyer and the gentleman's grandchildren, undertake a tour of the island that hosts the park. They are indeed filled with wonder, at first. But then, everything goes horribly wrong...There is an important message to this story. I like how they didn't rub it in too much, but it came across loud and clear regardless: just because you can do something, doesn't automatically mean that you should. You need to think of the consequences of your actions.I don't think that in a review about a movie about dinosaurs it is a spoiler to say that I love the scene where the specialist characters (and we, the audience) first see the dinosaurs. I can imagine what that would be like. I would definitely be filled with wonder and awe.The consequences of dinosaurs and humans sharing this planet, though, are indeed so great and so complicated that it's fair to say that it wouldn't be a good idea. It's a shame, but at least we have this wonderful movie.I can recommend Jurassic Park wholeheartedly. Except for younger children - there are some rather tense scenes that could frighten them. For teens and adults, however, if you like action, and dinosaurs, this movie is one to go for.

I think it's rare for a film adaptation to be better than its source material book, but this film pulls it off in my opinion. The stellar casting brings real depth to the story and the scene about the flea circus lends it an edge missing in the novel. The special effects really do hold up except in one or two shots where they do use CGI. The dialogue borrows heavy from the book and poses some very interesting questions about artistic failure and bioengineering.

This story of a mega-successful movie has been seen by most, so I won't describe this, but what puts this Blu-ray rendering above the superior standard of most is the sharpness of the images, wide palette colours and with superb sound. My Toshiba is an older (2013) 32", and I have a 2.1 audio, but this movie is THE best quality. And I have over 155 disks in my library. It looks brilliant, even on my bog-standard telly. It the best technical quality movie I have ever seen. The only other superior transformations of this level of quality are the movies 'Gravity' on DVD and 'Titanic' on Blu-ray. And 'Jaws' on DVD. My Sony Blu-ray does a great job in upscaling DVDs. I bought 'Gravity' on Blu-ray and I could not see any difference between the DVD and Blu-ray disks.

I am new to 3D viewing and understand from previous reviews that this film wasn't shot in 3D, but has been modified to 3D since. If that is the case, then they have certainly made a great job of it. Hopefully, they will soon do the same thing to the 2nd and 3rd films in this series (the 4th already being available in 3D and that is due to arrive in the next few days). I would highly recommend Jurassic Park to anybody (like myself) dipping their toes into 3D viewing.