Good start ruined by corn

Rating: 5/10 (31 January 2015)

2001: A Space Odyssey was done on a shoestring and makes more sense despite having virtually no dialogue in half the film. This film cost a fortune, talks and lot, and continues the 'schmaltz in space' theme along the lines of Gravity. The first half an hour sets out some interesting ideas and then proceeds to spend the next 2 hours trashing them by way of quasi scientific mumbo jumbo. And who said it was a good idea to have smart-arsed filing cabinets as robots? Don't get me wrong, there are worse ways to spend 2 and a half hours, but the premise that an alien civilization would create a wormhole in space (rather than curing crop blight) just to allow characters as wooden as this to traipse around is pretty shaky. Better films include: Solaris - Original 1972 version