Must be seen on the big screen

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2001)

I'd seen this a couple of times on video before, and I loved it, but I just saw it at the cinema on a rerelease, and its a totally different experience. The scale of the spacecraft, the spine-tingling opening title, the Starchild etc. All of these benefit from being really f*****g big. Its a film which gives us so much time to contemplate and marvel, without pushing you to follow an intricate plot, which is a far greater evocation of the desolation of interplanetary travel than any other in cinema.