My all time favorite film

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2002)

Yes I love this film and I appreciate that people hate it with the same passion. What I have found is that unless you approach with a sense of wonder and awe it will just leave you cold. Movie goers brought up on a diet of Star Wars / Star Trek and their like and are used to being spoonfed the plot, having all action against thought, flash effects rather than what is realistic and the usual good versus evil (no grey areas) just don't seem to have this sense of awe and wonder. Maybe it's because we live in very cynical times, and that having a the sense of wonder seems a rather childish thing now. Made in a time when we felt we could change the world (how's that for over amitious optimism) and that we were at the begining of something wonderful. Shame that it just never materialised. I digress.... So, if you want run of the mill action films with a scifi setting then watch the rest. However, if you want your intelligence provoked, if you appreciate the use of image and sound (that in my view is breathtaking), if don't mind having to work out the ending (if there is one) and you want a film that asks many more questions than it answers - then give this film a chance.
You may be surprised....... By the way I do like Trek (but not Voyager).