OK, but...

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2007)

The movie was OK, but I found it to be extreeemly boring. Most of the time all the scenes are in real-time where the camera just sits still while the astronaut slowly floats to the ship, he does it for a full minuet, and I don't know if it was my DVD but the first 5 minuets is simply sounds/music on a black screen (at fist I thought the vid stream was messed up). I can imagine that the reason the scenes were so long and monotonous is because Kubrick wanted to show the audience the high-quality futuristic ships/planets/equipment, but by todays standards of sci-fi quality the props/equipment and planets look boring, only the astronaut where he fights the onboard comp, is where the movie shows some action, anyways if i would be watching this in '68 i would have prob linked it (otherwise id give it a 5)