Good Epic Film...

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2008)

My comment will be focused not on the subject of the film but on the films characteristics themselves. In cinema there are some main anchors points to which you can attach a film piece to and "Contact" is tagged to a very powerful one - an EPIC FILM. The difference between epic film "wanna  be" and real epic films, is that the real ones seem to have been a part of your life once the credits start to roll. All of us know this feeling very well, as we have all seen "The Godfather". Epic films usually tend to go outside the realms of the genre they were meant to be. That is why you can not say that "Contact" is an action or an action flick, even though it has most characteristics of both. There is drama in there too but its not that either, it's an epic film. Camera-work is on a decent level. Effects are well done. The film was not ruined by intolerable clichés phrases or dialogs. The plot was a hard one to get through, if you don't know what you're doing but that is not the case with Mr. Zemeckis. No matter of how controversial the topic may be to the audience, it is and will remain, as one of the thumbs up films of the 90's archives, because as far as cinematographic arts criteria go it is surely above the mediocre.
A good example of an epic film.
7/10