2001 remade & re-imagined for a New Generation

Rating: 9/10 (1 April 2015)

Do you like only Action Films? then this is probably not for you.
Did you LOVE '2001'? then you'll probably LOVE this as it's very much a new re-imagined version for the 21st Century.
It is a very emotional film (that I was not expecting) and a brilliantly made one, everything from the direction, acting, effects, score and story are spot on.
Some may find the ending kinda hokey but I liked it and here's why...
Think about this, if we humans do stick around long enough (we need to grow up a hell of a lot to do so...NO MORE KILLING EACH OTHER!!!) then who's to say what we might be capable of (just look how far we have come in such a short time!) in which case why couldn't we create such a wormhole? and a futuristic library?
You may ask the question... Why would 'THEY' make it so damned difficult for us to get this information needed to help save our World?
Why couldn't they have simply handed this to us if they were now THAT ADVANCED (it's a fair point) but then there would have been NO need to vist these worlds and have the encounter with the black hole on the other side of the wormhole putting them all in peril.
Also, if our evolution advances us to the point where we humankind have progressed into this 4th dimension (a spiritual existence perhaps?) then maybe there was no way back into our current dimension in which case they needed to place this information within our reach and perhaps theirs too? with this futuristic human history library inside there (just a thought)
Christopher Nolan is clearly a super film-maker and I for one hope he one day return to the science fiction genre.
2001 still remains the better film but this has enough upgrades and differences to make it a very worthy and at times a real emotional roller-coaster of a film...making it a more HUMAN film than I thought.
There may be faults with the Science (I just don't know! I don't think anyone really does? the stuff out there could be stranger than we can ever imagine) but it's a film you can watch, ponder and talk about with friends and family....Time itself maybe the strangest thing of all!
So 'Birdman' won The BEST FILM 2015 Oscar!!! well sorry NO.
What's worse is that 'Interstellar' was up for very few of those awards (shame on you) maybe the older members (and there are a lot) might have thought they had seen it before with 2001 and yes there are similarities but there's more of a human story here (I didn't think that would work but it did) and there are enough updated and modern differences to make it a very worthwhile film.
ONE OF THE BETTER FILMS of the LAST DECADE