The greatest Sci-Fi film to grace the cinema (Some Spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (2 October 2014)

I could go on about this movie for a very long time but I think a brief review is much more helpful to the masses. I am 15 years old and in my age group films such as these are usually overlooked in favour of the "widely-praised" action and sci-fi films of today. It is sad to see that my age group might never have the chance to see one of the most revolutionary films of all time. From start to finish this movie awes and surprises in it's grand quest to show the evolution of mankind in an almost silent film. For the most part the viewer is presented with an array of beautiful if not stunning shots of space, ships and planets. The film is so revolutionary that these shots feel like they're out of the 1980s and not 1968. I won't go too much into the ending or the story as my own interpretation is likely to be quite different from anyone else's. This is the genius of the film. It presents itself subtly and forces the viewer to think. A quality which almost every modern film lacks and it saddens me to see the dumbed- down films that have a chokehold on the industry and that movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey will be likely forgotten in the wake of this mass idiocy.