"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that..."

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2002)

The Sentenel, an observer - or an affector? From the Dawn of Man to the twilight of a machine, this film offers many questions and many answers. Unfortunately for the literal or the simple, they aren't complimentary.

Kubrick and Clarke spent many moons evolving a postwar story by a young visionary (Clarke) and crafting it into a timely (the landing on the Moon in real life) and timeless epic about us, it and them.
Visually and aurally stunning, with effects from 1960's psychedelia to some of the best outer (and inner) space photography to this day, this film - even if you don't comprehend it - is still a standard of the potential of cinema to take us where we only dream.