Rivetting, brilliant, and beautiful.

Rating: 10/10 (13 February 2003)

In my opinion, Contact is the best film adaptation of a speculative-fiction book to date. As usual, the book is more epic than the film, but this film stands well on its own and never falls down.
There simply isn't anything wrong with this film. It starts with a wonderfully crafted story that winds around the most important questions humanity has asked itself. The acting is very well done. The depth of the characters is well represented. The pace is perfect. The suspense holds, breaks, and returns until the conclusion. And what a conclusion it is.
It would have been nice if they had used the ending Sagan used in the book, but I can appreciate why they chose not to. The general audience wouldn't have the background in math to understand it.
A brilliant film that will leave its audience breathless.