Looking at it in 2002

Rating: 9/10 (22 October 2002)

It is hard for me to believe that this movie was made 34 years ago. Sanley Kubrick was a genius. This movie is like a piece of art work. So was "Eyes Wide Shut" and, even more unbelievably, so was Clockwork Orange. Who else could have portrayed ugly violence in style like this? An anticipation of the future too: just look at what's happening in islamicized French "banlieues" these days.
To come back to "2001 Space Odysey" it didn't need all the advanced techniques we have today for "special effects". The pictures convey the infinite slowness of the speed of light, and the music is like the sound of silence. A film for all times. A classic. Impressive!