Dazzling Masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (15 September 2013)

Stanley Kubrick's visually dazzling, intellectually stimulating and ambitious film makes one of the best uses of the medium known as cinema ever made. Film begins when humans were still apes, and how, when one of them touches a huge, mysterious monolith, he is pushed forward in evolution, and uses an old bone as a tool(to smash and kill of course...) Thousands of years later, man is now on the moon, and another monolith is uncovered, inspiring a spaceship crew to investigate, causing the on board ship computer HAL9000 to malfunction(sensing the oncoming next evolution it cannot experience?) One astronaut enters the monolith, and he(and the viewer) see an astonishing, even overwhelming assault on the senses that leads to...
Well, for those who haven't seen it, no spoilers, but just consider how a "star child" fits in at the end... A unique achievement in film history, not to be missed.