Great flick

Rating: 10/10 (21 October 2005)

But one question remains. Already accepting that the findings of the science team could be suppressed by Katz (and Angela Basset's character doing nothing about this), why didn't Ellie just suggest firing up The Machine one more time to see if that passenger would corroborate her story?
Okay, one more question. We see Bill Clinton in power when The Message is first discovered. The man is still in power when Ellie takes the trip through The Machine. So i figure only a short time passed between these two events, at least not more than a few years (unless Bill found a loop in the U.S. Constitution). So are we to believe that humanity was able to figure out all this new science packed in the message and build a trillion dollar machine in such a short time? That's quite a leap. To compare, at my work it takes about four years for the paperwork to go through in order to get a new copier.
But apart from that, this is a truly humane and thought-provoking movie. I only wish Hollywood could make more of these.