Brilliant.

Rating: 10/10 (14 May 2006)

The typical criticism of this movie is that it is too long and too boring. That is humorous. For some people I suppose sitting on a beautiful beach somewhere is too boring. For some people, when every second of their lives isn't the equivalent of a candy shop filled with saccharin crap, they become bored. For those people this is not the movie to watch, or comment on. Take your dislike of it and file it away somewhere with your other meaningless opinions.
Besides the fact that much of what this movie depicts is as accurate a depiction of our space-faring future as had ever been created, there is vastly more to this. For people in the 1970's when this movie was created, much of what this movie deals with would have been absolutely unknown or even inconceivable, like a man trying to explain mathematics to a monkey, some people simply lack the ability to fully comprehend what this movie is about.
The vast amount of references to psychology, philosophy, art, and science that this movie contains would take paragraphs to fully describe. This movie draws on so much, and puts it together so eloquently, its impossible not to regard it as arguably the greatest achievement in the history of film.
If you have an intellectual mind and a strong interest in philosophy the psychology of intelligence, or just raw science fiction, this movie is a treat.