Tense; but may I be frank ?

Rating: 4/10 (31 August 2016)

It drags. The ending is predictable. There are very many plot holes. That agrees with what a large number of reviewers have to say. I'm not alone. Most of the critics have it right, and it is very odd that it sits so high on IMDb. It does not deserve its elevated spot, above numerous much better films. It is dropping, however.
Difficult to know how to fill up the requisite ten lines. Ian Holm was good, the way he acted the robot, long before he was revealed to be mechanical. Rather a dodgy feature of the plot, though. Hurt is always good. Sigourney was good in her part. Have I seen her in anything else ? She is supposed to be in Annie Hall, but I didn't notice her. I did also see The Conquest of Paradise, but I can't say I recognized her. The others were run of the mill. They seemed an irritatingly dysfunctional team.
One thing about Ridley is that he's supposed to have been impressed by clunky Stanley Kubrick. Strangely enough, I do often think, when I watch a Ridley Scott film, that he is saying: I see what you mean Stan, but let me show you the way to do it. 2001 also drags.