A must see for fans of sci-fi

Rating: 9/10 (4 April 2011)

NOTE: only very slight spoilers
Stanley Kubrick's amazing science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey will blow your mind. Its one of those movies that everyone should see.
The main plot is about a group of astronauts sent to investigate a beacon in space... and that's about it. The main story itself is very simple but there's just so much other stuff going on.
The movie is really artsy and confusing and uses a minimal amount of dialog. Its also full of really long and slow shots of stuff flying in space. It starts with a weird scene with a bunch of primates(SLIGHT SPOILER: the movie is supposedly about evolution and an evolutionary breakthrough is apparently symbolized by a monolith) but after that it seems quite normal when the astronauts are doing astronaut stuff in their space shuttle which is controlled by HAL-9000 a sentient talking super computer that never makes mistakes. The middle part of the movies is my favorite its just so fun to look at the crew of the space ship do their stuff and the sets are probably best in sci-fi history, the ship's interior and the miniatures look amazing although very dated(if they had made the movie now HAL would probably be a laptop instead of huge 10x10 feet computer).
The atmosphere of the movie reminds me of Alien and is quite claustrophobic and besides being and obvious inspiration for Alien it also must have inspired Star Wars. Just look at the space ships, they're like straight from 2001.
Towards the end it gets really weird and trippy and to be honest I really don't get it (SLIGHT SPOILER I've heard an interpretation that the aliens(that are never seen) captured the guy and built a cage that resembles his "natural habitat" which sounds kinda right but you'r guess is as good as mine).
If you want to see a visually stunning really well made,well acted movie with a great atmosphere then definitely check this out but remember its 2/½ hours long and quite slow + its an acid trips.