A boring to death movie with a few good moments

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2002)

At first I thought that this movie would be worth watching, but I was surprised to find it boring and meaningless and incredibly weak compared to the great book by A. Clarke.
Thankfully there were some good moments with suspense. Especially when HAL went crazy and started hunting the spaceship's crew. But everything else is an absolute waste of time and nerves. Or a good way to replace sleeping pills... I don't care if Kubrick loves listening to waltz as a background for two or three fake looking spaceshuttle/ship/base models moving with a millimeter per minute - for most people it is boring to death.
I hoped that at least the ending would be better than the rest, but it turned out to be far less intriguing than the one in the book and did not carry to the screen any of the ideas it had to. In the context of the film it was meaningless.