One of the BEST films of the 1960's...A Masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 1999)

Stanley Kubrick's saga of evolution from "The Dawn of Man" to the year 2001 is a brilliant tale of the physical and technical development of mankind. Everytime I hear "The Blue Danube", an immediate vision of outer space exploration fills my imagination...thanks to the wonder of this film. Today, we are already fulfilling that vision of Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. When I first saw this film on the super wide screen in THX sound, I was blown out of my seat. The film is a close tie with Star Wars in my book as THE best in outer space movies. Notice I didn't say science fiction...I have never considered this movie to be science fiction, but a mere prophecy that has come true when it was first developed. Today, as all computer programmers know, computers do what we tell them to do through software programs. Many people have considered HAL by itself to be a villain in this movie. I say "NO". HAL was programmed by a human being. The human(s) who developed HAL were the TRUE enemy...judge for yourself. A true masterpiece of film making...it will last for centuries to come. Score: 10+ (out of 10).