The film that defined science fiction cinema.

Rating: 10/10 (16 September 2015)

Stanley Kubrick was a man of many talents; he knew the mysteries of the universe, and only he could show the world a visually complex tale of space travel, alien technology and only scratching the surface of the secrets in the universe. 2001: A Space Odyssey is still a masterpiece not just of science fiction, but cinema as a medium.
Kubrick made a film so ahead of his time back in 1968, that it's a bit of a wonder why so few films since A Space Odyssey have reached its level of cinematic ambition and complexity. This is one of the few films to show space as a void we're only just beginning to know about, not some battlefield that breaks the rules of the vacuum on command. This is a film that spans millions of years, from the dawn of man to the film's interpretation of our future.
2001 is one of those rare films that has its sense of spectacle accompanying the story, rather than being separate from the story like many $150 million+ CGI fests of today. Kubrick made this film its very own thing: a film of science fiction that was well and truly ahead of the sci-fi films of its day. It still holds up visually and narratively to this day and will for generations to come.