Jurassic Park

The monster moneymaker of all monster movies, “Jurassic Park” proved that society’s curious affair with dinosaurs is far from extinct. As directed by Steven Spielberg (“Jaws,” “E.T.”, the “Indiana Jones” trilogy, etc.), this sci-fi thriller offers edge-of-your seat excitement from yet another of man’s experiments gone awry.

The plot, involving a theme park built around “real-life” cloned dinosaurs, is quite predictable, but the action scenes and breakthrough special effects are so expertly handled that I found my body actually bracing in an attempt to fight off dino attacks against the main characters. There is much discussion of the idea of man playing God and the dangers of interfering with nature, as the dinosaurs eventually break free from man’s dominion and wreak terror and destruction across the film’s tropical island setting.

Some remnants of truth can be found in dialogue such as “You did what you could, but didn’t think if you should” and “God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs.” Unfortunately, these thoughts are perverted by the movie’s unceasing barrage of evolutionist propaganda, including casual references to man and dinosaurs being separated by 65 million years, and other theories hopelessly unsubstantiated yet dressed as undeniable scientific fact. In summary, one of “Jurassic Park's” heroes states that if we just let evolution run its course, everything will be okay (“Life will find a way… evolution proves it.”)

Beyond its anti-Biblical view of life’s origin, Christian parents should be warned of the intensity with which the dinosaur attacks are depicted (primarily against the pre-teen grandchildren of the park’s owner). Despite most children’s fascination with dinosaurs, this is definitely not a movie for soft, impressionable hearts which could easily be terrorized by subsequent nightmares or even daytime fears from its scenes of stalking and dismemberments.

Aside from the film’s often violent nature, there are relatively few profanities. Rare for most of today’s secular movies, “Jurassic Park” does not feature any nudity or premarital sex, although one character flirts briefly with the female lead and mentions his many divorces.

While “Jurassic Park” does provide some amusement park-type thrills to the flesh, its evolutionist agenda only further contributes to what is—ironically—the title of its much awaited sequel… “The Lost World.”

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