Imaginative sci-fi, inside an absolutely obnoxious movie.

Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2002)

There are 10 really wonderful minutes in this movie. Otherwise Contact is very shallow, a daytime soap. Certainly many of the actors are not up to snuff. Angela Basset is particularly bad as the president's science advisor.
Watch the ten minutes when she goes on the space voyage in the middle of the film. This is as remarkable a bit of cinema as you will ever see.
The rest is very bad packaging.