It truly is overrated film.

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2014)

2001: Space Odyssey, as stated here multiple times, really contains two stories. The brilliant claustrophobic thriller in traveling spaceship, and a philosophical art film about mankind, existence and evolution. It could have been a one of the best films ever made, but sadly Kubrick dropped the ball.
Problem is that the film seriously lacks content. It has brilliant pieces that stay separate to the end of the film and you can't really form any kind of summary or idea what it was about. Instead of a sequences that would allow audience to get the plot and idea, Kubrick added classical music and fancy picture art show.
Point being, if you can't follow the movie without reading a book about it, it is rather poorly made.