The must-see Sci-Fi film ever

Rating: 9/10 (11 September 2005)

If you are a sci-fi movie buff, 2001 it's a film you'll enjoy, not only because the beauty of the photograph and the plot, but the scientific and metaphysics background surrounding the whole film. From the Dawn of Man to the space travel to Jupiter we are grasped by the hand of Kubrick and A. C. Clarke and we are shown to a world of discoveries: Videophones, computer graphics, use of cards with magnetic bands for pay phones, no-sound-in-void-of-space, talking computers, computer Chess games, hibernating bodies for long-term travels, etc. OK, FX are cheesy, I admit it, but come on, the year the film was made is 1968, we can forgive that. The restaurated release of the film and the remasterized sound makes you think it was filmed a year or two ago. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a Beta, VHS, DVD or UMD you MUST have in your collection. Enjoy it all the time you want and you won't be disappointed.