An intelligent movie for believers

Rating: 9/10 (11 October 1999)

I know that a lot of people were disappointed by this film, but I rank it as one of my all-time favorites. Jodie Foster never ceases to amaze me! She carried the film extremely well. I read the book after seeing the movie, and I admit that the storyline in the book is better. However, I did not know much about the plot when I first saw it, and it had me hooked the entire time. I cannot forget the awe I felt when I left the theater. It's a movie that, like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," respects all of us that wonder in the back of our minds, "What if..." when it comes to life on other planets. So many movies today make fun of this wonder (i.e. "Independence Day"), but "Contact" takes its fans seriously. Thank you, Carl Sagan!