Don't believe the hype...

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2005)

I usually do not comment the movies I come here to vote, but I have to make an exception on this one. The simple fact that this is a Stanley Kubrick film based on a book by Arthur C. Clark does not make it wonderful. I do not get the 8,3 average.
Are people simply too afraid to disagree with the majority of people or has boring become exciting and vice versa. I might enjoy this movie if it would be available in an unabridged version which would probably be 10 to 15 minutes long. For the most part of the movie there's nothing going on (and I don't wanna hear any more of that "it's beautiful and artistic etc." stuff, 'cause in my humble opinion a movie is supposed to be entertaining.) Boring scenes about nothing after another with some dialog in the middle and absolutely no plot at all sums up the whole movie.
Waste of time (and a good two and a half hours of it too). It's not worth the one star, but since i cannot give it a zero...