A groundbreaking picture.

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2002)

2001 broke ground in the area of science fiction in film. All further films and televion (Trekies) was based on this film. Kubrick created some brilliant special effects to show his ideas. He did this a year before anyone would land on the moon. This is astounding. One may consider this in terms of the popular science fiction to follow 2001. Star Wars would not be released for nine years. 2001 set precedents and had very little space experience on which to base them. To date, there may not be a film which is more physically accurate. I have hear complaints about the lenght of 2001 and the lack of action and dialogue. Factually, a trip to Jupiter or Saturn would be pretty boring. If in watching 2001, a viewer has the intellectual capability (either by reading the book, seeing the movie before, or incredible insight) to understand the subtleties, the movie will be one of the best ever seen. It gets better with each viewing.