Does not follow plot or Einstein

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 1999)

Part Spoiler
Even though I thought the movie was great, I always have problems with films containing a major flaw that would destroy the ending if they stuck with the script...similar to a car chase in Manhattan that shows some shots in the Hamptons. As they discuss in the film, Einstein's theory of relativity states that if Jody travels so many light years and came back home, everyone she knew would have died of old because a 100 years would have passed on earth but she wouldn't have aged but a few. Who would have had a more fulfilled life? Those that raised families and had a full life or Jody who was just still on her journey? This is where the entire movie falls apart as far as the plot goes. For some reason, it's just the opposite and Jody ages 18 hours and everyone on earth ages less than a second....hmmmm????....If they would have stuck to their own plot (and Einstein's), she would have returned the next day and everyone would have known that Contact was made, thus destroying the entire ending to the film.