Excellent for its time, but beginning to grey around the edges

Rating: 6/10 (24 November 2005)

I know that I'll offend the great masses for saying this. Kubrick's "2001: A Space Oddyssey" is showing its age. I watch this film every few years, just for the spectacle. After my most recent viewing, I don't think I'll revisit this film again.
The concepts explored in Clarke's novel are translated well. But the pacing of the film strikes me as uneven, and the acting is wooden on almost all counts. Many will say that this is a film about emotion and ideas. A pity then that the cast comes across as secondary, to the visuals.
If ever there was a film that was a product of the psychedelic age, this would be it. You'd have to be blind not to see the influences of the time in the end sequence. So much of this film now seems pointless and overwrought, consumed with its own artistic vision, that is graying with time.