Stanley Kubrick's ambitious science-fiction epic, billed as "a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for...
Stanley Kubrick's ambitious science-fiction epic, billed as "a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite".
Kubrick starts with human's prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted realms of spacey.
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92 %117 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
89 %300,814 reviewsAudience score rating
"With the release of Stanley Kubrick's enigmatic space spectacle in 1968, the science-fiction film finally came of age."
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Total Film
Total Film"Lingers on the mind like a tall, black riddle: Where are the new bones, the new tools, that will take us higher? Do we even deserve them?"
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Time Out
Time Out"Somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Like all good speculations, it leaves the spectator up in the air with a tantalising vision as food for thought."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"The film creates its effects essentially out of visuals and music. It is meditative. It does not cater to us, but wants to inspire us, enlarge us."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Awesome, influential, mind-blowing, cool, obsessional, pretentious."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine2001: A Space Odyssey | Details
Award winner- Best Special Visual Effects, Academy Awards 1969
- Rating
- U, Contains some mild horror
- Runtime
- 141
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Country of origin
- UK, USA
