A movie that makes you wonder about everything.

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2003)

WARNING: Spoilers
From the dawn of man to man destiny. From the time man created technology to the time technology fought back against man. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie like no other, it stands as a category of its own. Legendary director Stanley Kubrick and author Arthur C. Clark have put together a spectacular masterpiece that can make one wonder about life and the universe.
This is a story about the entire evolution and destiny of humanity, how it started and where it's headed. It starts off showing how man got seperated from the ape species and went its own way like no other creature on earth had done before. Four billion years ago, a spices of ape had lived as helpless scavengers, carefully feeding themselves at day, hiding together in caves at night, tribes fighting together with tribes over territory and muddy water but not knowing how to fight. They were living in fear of predators, seeing their friends get attacked and killed and not knowing what to do about it. Then one morning, a small tribe had been encountered by a mystical black, rectangular object which changed the way that this certain small group of apes think. One ape discovered that he could use a bone as a weapon to attack others and defend himself, this was the very first wave of technology. He uses it so his tribe could defend their territory against other apes. This will be the tribe that will evolve into man. The black object known as the monolith was calling man out to the orbit of Jupiter and it waited four billion years for man to have the capability to make it there so man can confront its true destiny. The mission was almost unsuccessful. Just as man had the technology to transport themselves to Jupiter, man's technology, the HAL-9000 got so advanced that it turned against man which could have been the start of a more advanced evolution that could have overpowered man (an idea that Stanley Kubrick was also going to work on in the movie 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' but sadly didn't live to do it). However the mission was successful. Astronaut David Bowman defeated the HAL-9000 and went as the representative for the entire history of humanity (without knowing it) and became a supernatural being.
Sounds crazy? Of coarse this movie is all fiction but lets face it. There has to be a good explanation for why man is so intelligent. All other creatures on this planet just live by their natural instincts. Do you really think that nature made man what it is today? Why would nature give man the capabilities to destroy nature? The reason for man's intelligence can't be natural, it has to be supernatural.
This movie has blown many minds away, not only by the plot but also by the whole style of the way that this movie was made. It has such a bizarre style of cinematography that it will send your mind light-years away even if you're not under the influence of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'.
I'll give this movie **** out of four stars.
Followed by '2010'. It was OK.