Fantastic Film - A 'Must See'!

Rating: Null/10 (12 January 2003)

This is a film for the thinking sci-fi fan. It delves into the secrets of mans evolution on a grand scale. The scale of this film is almost undescibably epic. An awesome masterpiece of a film, beatifully directed in every detail by Stanley Kubrick.
Ok, thats the praise out of the way, you can guess its just about the best film I can think of really, but it is a long, epic, film, so best to view it in widescreen (it was originally filmed in cinemascope, so get it as wide a possible - and to get the best out of this film you want DVD, surround sound, the lot! The musical score is just as good as the video side of it. The music is predominantly classical, which is unhurried, so be ready to be patient and give this film the time it deserves to develop - don't turn it off after half an hour. You get the idea that this is not a space soap opera? No way - this film is deep, very deep indeed.
An absolute classic, can't really fault it. An interesting nerd fact is that the computer's name 'HAL' is one letter shifted alphabetically from the letters 'IBM'. So there u go, a nerd fact for you. But this is not a sci-fi nerd film, this is a classic movie about evolution that just happens to be set in a sci-fi theme, that is artisically excellent.
The ending is just psychedelic really. There are parallels with the sort of evolution shifing talked about by Terrance McKenna here.
And you have to just marvel at the level of the special effects considering its age, its a bit of creative genius at work, no doubt about it.