Stanley Kubrick's greatest masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2001)

When Stanley Kubrick's "2001:A Space Odyssey", premiered in the summer of 1968,it was a science-fiction movie like no other has ever seen. It was not like the other sci-fi flicks where spaceships and monsters from other worlds attacked people but in a sense it was a dazzling spectacle of innovative technological cimema that would be the forefront of other films to follow years later. When this film was came out,it would be the second biggest attraction for MGM since the days of Charlton Heston in 'Ben Hur',which was the studio's highest grossing picture until 2001 came along. From its first scene with the dawn of mankind,to the eyepopping sequence of the spaceship rotating around the earth is a wonderous marvel to look at and you can't take your eyes away from it. For it's millennium anniversary,MGM is re-releasing it back into theatres and its presented in a format that has been never seen before. For those who have never seen this classic,this is a rare opportunity to see it up close and to experience the opening array of its breathtaking special effects and the way Arthur C. Clarke's story about the innovations of man and machine(including the computer HAL along with the astronauts who go beyond the stars and into the depths of space)is handled with great precision and it is very effective here. Since most of the production design was carefully supervised by Stanley Kubrick himself,it was astounding to see and behold with the powerful score that is set to classical music with the works of Richard Strauss and others.
Truly one of the greatest masterpieces of science fiction ever devised. A Stanley Kubrick masterpiece.