One of Kubrick's best works!

Rating: 9/10 (22 April 2012)

This is one epic sci-film film that surpasses expectations for its time. It is hard to believe that this was filmed in the late 60's but is able to perform as well in today's time. This title had generated the whole notion of science fiction films in which people were taking seriously instead of movies at the times about evil aliens taking over Earth.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a film that is based on a viewer's concept of a good film. Too many this film is very shallow and at some points very boring. When I first viewed this film on Blu-Ray, I was absolutely gob- smacked about how the apes were portrayed in the 'Dawn of man' sequence and was surely convinced that they were in fact real apes. The colours and the whole set were absolutely amazing and again I couldn't believe that something this epic existed before digital technology took place.
The film's basis is about a mysterious black pillar known as the "Monolith" which is forwarding and expanding human evolution, seen through all the sequences in the film.
Kubrick allows the audience to interpret his film and in doing so has generated much debate. An example are the empty black screens in the beginning and the intermission which has puzzled viewers for decades but has since then been described as the Monolith singing to the audience.
This film through first watching can cause people to fall asleep and not care about the film. It took me a total of 4 days to finish off the film the first time because I was constantly feeling the nausea of watching a 2 and a half hour feature film straight and had completely left out on all the beauty of this film. A second time watching allowed me to further analyse the film and since then has come to be one of my favourite Stanley Kubrick films of all time.
Absolutely excellent and would totally suggest picking up this title. Don't judge it the first time though! It is very hard not to like this film for what it is and what it has done for so many science fiction films that followed it.