One of the greatest, an unparalleled vision of science, evolution and man's place in the universe.

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2014)

Stanley Kubrick's magnum opus; philosophically powerful, technically breathtaking, narratively thrilling, and artistically unparalleled.
The visuals are timeless in their organic construction and the audio is Kubrickian baroque.
The score. The score. The score. 2001 changed the way music was done in cinema, it was now a necessity. And music has never been used better than in 2001.
The film's clearest message is about the underlying human nature that pushes us from using bone tools to interplanetary spaceships - the progress of man – but that is just the surface.
2001: A Space Odyssey came at a time when man was on the precipice between the greatest achievement in the history of humanity and total predetermined nuclear apocalypse. Both are the gifts of science and progress, hence both are the result of man doing or undoing – 2001 offers nothing more than step back and view us for what we are, what we have become, and what we might become. Certainly the film I feel most comfortable saying in is one the greatest.