Neuron killer

Rating: Null/10 (8 October 2000)

I hate to say it but this film is desperately slow, horribly predictable and full of that trite religiosity which goes down so well with Hollywood producers, movie backers and people in the Bible Belt. "Contact" is like a watered-down version of Cecile B. De Mille for New Agers and the Moral Majority. If this film is any guide, extra-terrestials seeking intelligent life would do well to give planet Earth a miss.