The only thing I would have added

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2001)

The only thing the movie left out (which was in the book) that I thought was of great import was the conflict on earth. The movie completely discounts the fact that the starchild prevents World War III while the missles are in the atmosphere about to come back to earth. I don't know why this was omitted, but it showed how the evolution of one man saved the species as a whole.