Science Fiction Excellence: 30 years ahead of its time!

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2002)

This film is truly an exceptional piece of entertainment history. A film based on a story by a science fiction writer that actually thought about what life would be like in the 21st century.
Stanley Kubrick was an exceptional individual with a vision and accuracy of what outerspace was truly like. Now remember this film was made almost 10 years before Star Wars was released. The films story was exceptionally well crafted. Here is a ancient unexplainable monolith that is discovered on the moon which is calling out to the universe as some sort of "homeing beacon". Humans, being truly arrogrant, believing that they've figured out the meaning of the monolith go to Jupiter to unlock this secret.

Along the way, the pressures of deepspace travel and an artificial intelligence that has a "nervous breakdown" makes the story very interesting and entertaining to see if humanity can survive within the vacuum of space and far from its evloutionary nest.
I highly recommend this film for all to see, sci fi lovers and the non, alike to watch. You'll at least come away from the film with an appreciation of what accuracy Kubrick was trying to obtain, or make you believe that "we are truly not alone" in the universe.