Like many of life’s most worthwhile endeavors, it amazes and petrifies in equal measure.

The effects… remain movie magic, and as a cautionary tale disguised as an amusement park thrill ride, its intensity is undeniable. Though I’m more drawn to the parallels between Hammond and Spielberg as obsessed visionaries bent on creative control.

When the prehistoric creatures command the screen in this remarkable new picture, they represent one of the movies' few most striking achievements of their potential as the next best thing to dreaming.

Spielberg treats us as he does his characters, leading us into a strange land and expecting us to make it out with all our faculties intact.