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Twenty years on from its original release, nothing feels remotely extinct about Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster take on Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel. Not the Oscar-winning FX that brought the dinosaurs back to life. Not John Williams’ timeless score. Not even Richard Attenborough’s hokey-but-wholesome turn as John Hammond, the eccentric billionaire who …

As far as hackneyed soap opera tropes go, the old “selective amnesia” chestnut takes some beating – boy meets girl, girl forgets boy, boy tries to jog girl’s memory – and the basedon- real-events tag can’t negate the schmaltz factor at the core of Michael Sucsy’s debut. “Are you trying …