I liked the book, and thought I'd like the movie. I was wrong.

Rating: 2/10 (20 January 1999)

While I enjoyed the slow, majestic score, I'm not rating Wagner here. There was a lot of build-up in the movie, but to what, I'm not entirely sure. Perhaps if I hadn't read the book, I would have been intrigued with the events as they were portrayed (HAL's voice was sufficiently unemotional yet menacing). Unfortunately, I did read it, and it seemed that the movie was just a preview of the novel. Throughout the movie I was intently focused on other things... call me jaded if you want, but the movie taught me one thing, and that is, see the movie first, then read the way it is supposed to be. Arthur C. Clark's story deserved better, in my unhumble opinion.