A great journey of higher level thinking

Rating: 9/10 (5 April 2005)

Great visuals, well edited, good suspense, great thrills. The sequence where she is travelling through space at the end is EXACTLY how I would have expected space travel at light speed to look like, and more! Very very good.
The film's greatest attribute however, is how it leaves you wanting when it finishes but in a fairly satisfied way, but most importantly, it leaves you thinking. The film was intended to be simply a ladder to a higher train and indeed a much larger scale of thought, not to provide a defined ending and thus solid answers (hence the ending is mildly abstract in a way, and definitely left open to some interpretation.) To put it in short, this film is worth any intelligent person's time who enjoys to think far beyond the realm of everyday life. So please, give yourself a 'bimbo test' before watching. If you don't like thinking about things bigger than yourself and everyday life, and think that anything beyond the Earth's atmosphere is silly mumbo jumbo then don't bother with this film. I wouldn't want it to be completely wasted on you as you sink into the depths of boredom for the 2 hours you're watching it. If however, like me, you think about this sort of thing anyway, and find the idea of exploring the other 99.9999999999%r of the Universe slightly interesting, WATCH IT! Peace out.