It LOOKS good...

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2002)

But that's about it. I'll grant the special effects were very well done, and the realism of the space travel was good, but I need a good story to go along with it. And while in theory, a computer going berserk and killing the crew of a ship on their way to Jupiter to find the source of a mysterious transmission may sound cool, put into practice it's very slow. And the ending scenes... I had no idea what they were supposed to be until I ended up reading the end of the book in a class in college. And even then, I wasn't entirely sure that that's what they were trying to do. I know this is supposed to be one of those classics and way ahead of its time and all, but it's just plain dull.