excellent

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2007)

Have you read the book "Contact"? Then you'll like the movie though it is different from the book. Characters and places were changed during the making of the screenplay and the movie but the story stayed the same: mankind is tiny in the universe but unique. One of Robert Zemeckis' best movies. Jodie Foster is great as Dr Arroway, Tom Skerritt plays an arrogant "enemy" perfectly. What happened to this movie in 1997? After creating Forrest Gump, Bob Zemeckis started to make "Contact" but this movie got lost in time ("like tears in rain" - says the Replicant in Blade Runner). The answer is: Titanic. In 1997 James Cameron No. 1 hit motion picture flushed away anything else on the silver screen. Would people remember better of "Contant" if it appears in another year? Probably yes, because Contact is the best "close encounter"-movie since Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Watch it again - you'll see. "Contact" is TEN years old now - I hope, it will get a really SPECIAL EDITION DVD pack this year. Robert Zemeckis, do you hear me? This is W9GFO... CQ CQ This is W9GFO...