So good it makes me feel like a whore for liking anything less.

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2004)

Literally.
Imagine a movie devoid of every commercial aspect of modern film making and you have this movie. It is slow paced, completely lacking in name celebs, contains almost no violence, absolutely no sex and no profanity, no witless teaser oriented banter but instead boasts long passages with no dialogue what so ever and it tells a story that is incomprehensible to most casual viewers.
And yet it is a faultless masterpiece. The directing, cinematography, editing, special effects, set design, acting, script and story are all near perfect. The movie tells a story of such grand sweep and vision that it is unlike any other. It delivers scene after scene in such a precise yet unforced fashion that it leaves no room for pandering. From the astoundingly natural sounding dialogue to a dead on rendering of the (imagined) realities of space travel, 2001 is a movie incapable of a false move.

I might sound like some deranged fanboy but that is only because this is my favorite movie of all time.