Stanley Kubric's Masterpiece???? Yeah, maybe!

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2013)

"2001: A Space Odyssey" is the 4th film of the genius Stanley Kubrick that not only manages to be one of his best films but one of the most beautiful masterpieces ever made in the history of cinema.
The story is not like a space adventure as the title seems to sound; it is much deeper than that. It all begins when a strange interference is captured within the Lunar surface. Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (William Sylvester) is highlighted to go on a mission along with other scientists to investigate the source of this interference. After reaching their destination they find a strange object, like a giant chocolate bar which seems be the source of the interference. When the scientists touch in the strange object their ears are invaded with a annoying sound. Six months later, a new team of six scientists are deployed to discover what happened to the other team and trace the source of interference that seem to be moving around the Lunar surface. Most of the team this time it is on hibernation while the scientists Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Dr. Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) control the ship with the intelligent-computer HAL 9000 voiced by Douglas Rain. The trip seems to go fine until HAL identifies a problem on the ship and the scientists go investigate, but the two men barely knows the true intentions of HAL to do with the mission and the strange object.
This film was a big change that the sci-fi genre begins to take, thanks to Kubrick and his beautiful and brilliant visual effects giving us beautiful scenery of the vast space. But this is not mere sci-fi whatsoever, the mission only serves as basis for the further philosophical "study" that Kubrick makes about the evolution of living beings, not just humans. The strange object has to do with all this, but it is also the real mystery of the film. But thanks to the writing of Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, makes everything so simple and beautiful.
A true masterpiece of cinema, a classic that changed the sci-fi genre forever, along with a fantastic writing and direction and also the unforgettable and terrifying HAL, "2001: A Space Odyssey" is one of the most beautiful masterpieces that Kubrick had gave to the 7th Art.