A good mystery thriller, but necessarily an entertaining one

Rating: 5/10 (18 September 2014)

The story opens in a very absurd way, forcing the viewers to look at what's supposedly the inspiration for Planet of the Apes movies for the whole 25 minutes or so. No dialog, just monkeys telling monkey tongues. But then the cinematography of the space condition and how they execute them is just an awesome job. Never before while I watch a movie I was intrigued into guessing at how did they do those anti gravity shots. The concepts of the futuristic technology are also very nice, and as we can see, they are not very different from what becomes reality nowadays. But that's all there is to it, and you'll only get them on little bits and pieces along the movie. Stanley Kubrick really likes the overall depressingly lonesome and gloomy mood of his work here. Despite the very good presentation of two conflicts, maybe three of you count those crazy monkeys, the abundance of duration without dialog, or even without meaning in the eyes of some, is overwhelmingly irritating for me. The acting overall is quite a nice job, despite the kind of stupid accents done by some.