ehhh, difficult.

Rating: 8/10 (21 December 2010)

Watching this film for the first time as a young viewer my original thoughts of the opening scene was the surprise that more people do not find it boring but as this is a very highly rated film it must mean that mostly only film lovers and not haters embark on this masterpiece of story ,music and design which is the way i hope it stays.
You may then think it is a bit hypocritical to say this and only give the film 8/10 but the reason for this is not about my lack of believe in evolution but for the length of some of the scenes such as the coloured light scene near the end. As i thought when the story had progressed into its full flow it would be better to end the film instead of trying the demonstrate the uncertainty of evolutionary paths. But don't think bad of me just because i did not like the long end scenes as i understand and enjoy the beautiful opening scenes as many others have said but i don't think these were just for beauty and beauty only these were more to demonstrate the isolation of space and to put that in your mind when the HAL story came into play.
The great influence this gave to the world of film and the thought of the future can simply never be replicated again. One of the small influences form it that made a huge impact on the movie Se7en was the subtly psychopathic Voice of HAL which was replicated by Kevin Spacey so well.
to conclude, not many people have had such an influence on the world of film, neither can many really explain this film fully other then Stanley Kubrick .