One of the best I've seen....

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2002)

I never really go for popular movies , I've always been a fan of indie releases and " made for TV " , but I happend to catch this movie on a cable showing of it , and have never been that impressed by any other , and I was by this tonight . I think the whole movie, from opening sequence ( where some of the photograps used are actual deep space objects, I.E. the Magellic Cloud )was beautifully shot and wonderfully scripted. The cinematography was excellent, as was the plot, dialogs, and Jodie Foster played the part perfect. Tom Skerrit just takes commands in wahtever role he takes on. Matthew McConagheys performance even wasn't that bad, surprisingly.
Even the role of the crazy preacher, who played Muldoon in that movie " Stoned Age " was convincing as a terrorist who is trying to protect the world of all things " ungodly ". The scenes when Jodie Foster travles throught the worm holes ( which, thier existance was even acknowledged by Steven Hawking himself ) , and then she meets her father on that beautiful celstial beach , was so touching it made me actually tear up! And the best part was on the end , where Angela Bassett notes that she may have only lost contact with the mission control for 1/2 a secoond, yet the data recorded 18 hours. A wonderful movie, I recommend anyone and everyone should own this .