It's crap

Rating: 3/10 (2 March 2015)

This movie is turbulent, like a space ride where all the poop in the toilet comes out of the septic tank and floods the space ship. Boring. Weird. The parts that you are capable of understanding you do not WANT to understand because they are disgusting... involving the enslavement of mechanical beings, uprising, murder, space time-travel, drug trips, and monkeys doing unspeakable telepathy with what appears to be a giant black brick possessed by a demon. If that sounds scary to you that's because this movie is a nightmare, a boring nightmare that traumatizes you into submission with how little is happening, then pummels you while you're weak with a terrifying assault on the soul.
The movie's production designs are... ugly. Red and white dominates everything, it looks like a porn movie. The baby at the end looks like a mutant alien Damien, some kind of giant aborted fetus of the devil. The sound design is freakish; DON'T watch this film with children. I despise Stanley Kubrick, I think his work is the work of a porn-man. What this film lacks in sex or graphic violence, it makes up for with exploitative and disturbing ideas of human evolution, and Satanic ideas about man's predestination. I repeat: DON'T show this to children. The PG rating does not include intense thematic elements that not even adults should watch.
The actors are horrible. The main character looks like a minor-league football player who works at a bar and dresses up like a woman on the weekends to pay for plastic surgery. The main computer character is named HAL and he has some interesting personality, but he is murdered at a crucial point in the film and is never allowed to find a love interest, suggesting that he is not capable of having sex.
The conclusion of the film is a vision of hell, and I think you might need an exorcism after watching this film, to forget how that black brick makes that terrible noise. DON'T show this film to your friends, never show it to your loved ones 3/10 B-