a movie that is quite odd, but profound in nature

Rating: 9/10 (23 February 2003)

There is no doubt this movie is strange, perhaps scary at times. Using subtle visual techniques Kubrick employs amazing visuals on the viewer and brilliant sound. Its hard to figure out what is going on, the first 30 minutes of the movie takes place "In the Dawn of Man" then it skips to the present (or future in this case). The acting is interesting, solid material from everyone it focuses on, also HAL 9000s voice, "it can only be attributable to human error." This movie also gets creepy in certain scenes, and some scenes don't make sense. Its a beautiful looking science- fiction movie, but I found it lacking in some departments. It also got too weird occasionally. Because of these problems I'm not giving this a very, very high rating as I would for Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove. 9/10