Sometimes boring but also sometimes fascinating

Rating: 7/10 (6 April 2001)

Contact has it's moments when you feel like you just might fall asleep (and some might feel a bit of anger due to it's anti-climax type of climax), it is also pretty well made and has some good wonder to it. Jodie Foster stars as a woman who has been looking for life out in space for most of her life with radio signals, until finally, she hears one coming in. That starts a chain that leads up to the creation of a spaceship sent by the signal and so on, and so forth. A lesson in faith, si-fi, and how we feel going into 18 hours of darkness (so to speak). Based on the book by Carl Sagan. Best scene though, the scene with the whole lot of crazies in celebration over the sending of the signal. B+