Stands up to the test of cinematic time

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2003)

Though this movie is not for the easily bored or discouraged, it does send out a message, and allows chilling extended views that movies today are unable to convey. I myself was privileged to read the book before viewing the film, which gave me a better idea of what was happening in the world of Kubrick's movie. Though it did not completely follow the story line of the book, which I felt would have been a better course for the movie to take, it allowed into the viewer's mind a spectrum of colors and makings that one could not possibly view today in any recently made movie. This film is made for someone who is willing to sit for over two hours in order to view moving art, and at the same time receive a free dose of adrenaline with the great speeches of the mutinous computer HAL. I am not particularly a Kubrick fan, but this allowed me to take a double look at his work. The fact that so many things in the story are today possible only proceed to make it that much eerier. Where Arthur C. Clarke failed to put a more than abstract view on the plot, Kubrick filled in with a universe that will mystify the mind.