A brilliant intelligent, thoughtful story and film.

Rating: 9/10 (26 July 1999)

These thoughts may be redundant in the light of so many glowing reports about CONTACT. The late Carl Sagan and his wife have left us with an adventure that is more for the thinker than the youthful type of audience that loves action. CONTACT is a movie that is intelligent, but poses questions that government, religion, and closed minded people don't wish to ask. But, in the end, it leaves the audience with the option to believe what they will. The best line in the film comes from a somewhat drab Matthew McConaghey. In essence, he said, that true science and true religion both seek the same thing . . . truth. The cast was superb and under Bob Zemaikis' direction, this movie will go down as a sci-fi classic. As Carl Sagan's story tells us that it is even MORE possible to get into space and around time by riding the electro-magnetic waves, rather than by our nowadays method of flying on a bomb into space. This movie will make those who can think, do so. It will have little effect on those with limited perception. It's really for "those who have ears to hear." If you're open minded and haven't seen this gem, please do so.