2010 (movie)

2010 (known also as 2010: The Year We Make Contact) is a 1984 science fiction movie. It was both directed and produced by Peter Hyams. 2010 was released on December 7, 1984. It is based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel 2010: Odyssey Two and is the sequel to the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The movie got mixed to positive reviews from critics. It has a 66% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Movie critic Roger Ebert rated the movie three out of four stars and said that it "doesn't match the poetry and the mystery of the original film" and that it "has an ending that is infuriating, not only in its simplicity, but in its inadequacy to fulfill the sense of anticipation, the sense of wonder we felt at the end of 2001". He finished his review by "And yet the truth must be told: This is a good movie. Once we've drawn our lines, once we've made it absolutely clear that 2001 continues to stand absolutely alone as one of the greatest movies ever made, once we have freed 2010 of the comparisons with Kubrick's masterpiece, what we are left with is a good-looking, sharp-edged, entertaining, exciting space opera".

In 1985, the movie was nominated for five Academy Awards in the categories of Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, and Best Sound Presentation.

 Cast 
 Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
 John Lithgow as Dr. Walter Curnow
 Helen Mirren as Tanya Kirbuk
 Bob Balaban as Dr. R. Chandra
 Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman
 Douglas Rain as the voice of HAL 9000
 Madolyn Smith as Caroline Floyd
 Saveliy Kramarov as Dr. Vladimir Rudenko
 Taliesin Jaffe as Christopher Floyd
 James McEachin as Victor Milson
 Mary Jo Deschanel as Betty Fernandez
 Elya Baskin as Maxim Brailovsky
 Dana Elcar as Dimitri Moiseyevich
 Oleg Rudnik as Dr. Vasili Orlov
 Natasha Shneider as Irina Yakunina
 Vladimir Skomarovsky as Yuri Svetlanov
 Victor Steinbach as Nikolaj Ternovsky
 Candice Bergen as the voice of SAL 9000 (she was credited as Olga Mallsner)

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