Recommend Watching At 4x.....8x..Or Even Faster

Rating: 2/10 (3 September 2008)

This is my first comment on any movie ever , i never portrayed my self as a writer, but i had to take out the frustration of watching such an over hyped piece of "Art"(yup I've heard they call such movies art)and to make every possible effort to stop people like me(sci-fi lovers)from watching this crap. so i decided to share my experience with you
if u are thinking of watching this movie I'll suggest you watch in 2x or a faster mode. the movie is so boring,its like watching a 30 min documentary about the working of spacecrafts in super slow motion. over 95% of the total run time of movie is without any dialogues . the scenes of space ships crossing other planets were extended to the limits. i didn't understand what the first 30 minutes of the movie were about. the background score is loud,irritating , unnecessary some times, but repetitive throughout. and for some music lovers they added 3 minutes of those irritating sounds without any images in the beginning of the movie as well as after the intermission,DVD i rented had an intermission too(the most interesting part).
A tiny thing this movie lacks is the "PLOT" after 1 hr and 10 min of the movie when hall tells Dave about the malfunction i prayed that the ship would crash and the movie will end but it didn't (my bad luck perhaps there was more of it for me to watch) the only interesting sequence was when Dave tries to get back into the spaceship and hall dies,in fact this was the only part of the movie i understood. i hoped the movie would now pace up, but that was not what the film makers had in mind. if the movie wasn't boring enough,the worst was still to come that's "beyond the infinite" i couldn't sum up a thing that happens after Dave enters the monolith a series of diff colored scenes then suddenly he's in a room watching himself getting old and then he's turned into some sort of cosmic baby(what was the ending all about?)
the only reason i watched this is because I'm trying to watch the top 250. and this is the only one i regret watching. the one thing that's nice about this movie are the clean camera tricks used to create the anti gravity environment even in the 60's, nothing else that's why I'll give it a generous 2/10.