Clearly the best Sci-Fi movie ever!

Rating: 10/10 (12 November 2000)

Appropriately described as Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001 is clearly the greatest science-fiction movie of all time, and perhaps the best movie ever. I saw this movie when it was first released in 1968, and spent some time thereafter thinking about it and trying to decode its real meaning. I subsequently found myself reading Clarke's book, which was nearly as good, to fill in the blanks. This is one of the few movies I have viewed many times over, and never get tired of it. It is as mesmerizing the tenth time as was the first.
It is rare that a sci-fi movie can have such a suspenseful story and also be one of the most beautiful movies ever filmed. What an achievement considering that the locale is the bleakness of space. And can anyone say anything more about how it was set to a musical score. If any movie can put a person in a trance and hold the person spellbound, this is it.

2001 a Space Odyssey is a true work of art. If you haven't seen it, you are missing something - it will take you on a journey you will never forget. A word about its sequels - not bad, but "light-years" behind their parent. My score - a perfect 10!