"I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. "

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2011)

"2001: A Space Odyssey" is not as much of a film, as it is more of a large-scale art piece. Divided into four acts, the film is blotched throughout with extended scenes which demonstrate most of its impressive special effects and celestial shots of space. Aside from such scenes, the movie uses influitive characters, astonishing long takes, and a soundtrack that heavily distorts any form of distraction away from the movie. In the third act, the HAL 9000 computer, named "Hal" in the film, comes off as a clever and terrifying twist to an old science-fiction cliché. Another thing to enjoy about the film is the beginning act, which ties in an extraordinary discovery made by ape-men in prerecorded history to the way the weapon was first discovered.