A boundary still unsurpassed

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2002)

This film has the most astonishing first 25 minutes of any film in the history of cinema and they always leave me awestruck. These first 25 minutes have no dialogue or voiceover at all, but tell the evolution of man in a very profound and intense way; punctuated and complemented perfectly by Kubrick's fabulous choice of music.
Much of the film uses quiet naturalistic dialogue which gives the film a sense of "realism". Many of the Special Effects are still passable even by today's standards. the only exception being the Wormhole sequence towards the end which does look a quite dated now.
2001 is THE thought provoking film of the last century. It seeks to answer some of our questions of man's relationship with the universe, the essence of humanity and the nature of existence, and in doing so seems to leave you wanting to ask even more.
2001 is unparalleled, unequalled and in a Genre of it's own. There has been and never will be a film like it again.