It's good, if you like no dedicated plot and long sequences of classical music.

Rating: 2/10 (6 October 2014)

I bought this film being an avid movie watcher myself, I've seen numerous Kubrick films (The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, etc.) and I made the assumption that this film would be similarly entertaining, however, I found myself bored in a prehistoric primate sequence which lasted longer than my patience did, then when I thought the movie would pick up, it slowed even further with long scenes of spaceships flying in space to classical music. Then it proceeds to a lunar landing mission segment which I guess was only suppose to awe the audience of what the future was suppose to look like. Then it picks up in Jupiter and blah blah blah, Hal becomes a d*ck and messes everything up blah blah, they find another monolith in space, blah, Dave sees his future selves, AND THEN HE TURNS INTO A F*CKING ORBITING FETUS, THE END. I found myself unsatisfied as I came to conclude that I had no idea what had just happened. I even tried to look up the plot on Wikipedia, but to no avail, apparently Kubrick wanted to make the film up for interpretation, but if you leave the plot solely up to that, then you have an unsatisfying movie.