Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Josef Roesler (madwand6) I gave 2001 a 1 rating as I'm not into pretentious artsy foolishness. Probably an hour was given to long, loud videos of imagery that did nothing for the story. So this movie actually had a plot and told a story. It still leaves you hanging with questions, but at least I didn't fall asleep 4X while watching it, as I did in the original.

hippiefreak I saw this movie 33 years after it came out. The original, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is my favorite movie. This 2010 movie gave me nothing to think about. The writers threw us some sentimental images of Bowman and of the Discovery so we might be excited at seeing old friends. The outdoor spaceship special effects were far inferior to the 1968 version. Why did that have to be? A low budget? The monolith was not black at every appearance in the movie. And when the spaceships MADE SOUND in the vacuum of outer space, that is heresy! I chalked that up to a post-Star Wars mentality. I found it annoying that the scientist who initially programmed HAL protected HAL almost like a lover. The original movie made me think as I watched. This sequel only made me watch the story-line cliches unfold. I was waiting for some Ewoks to show up.

nothimme This is way too different than 2001. There isn't any realistic side of the film. There was too much Hollywood in it. Visuality was poor. The decoration was bad, like we weren't in 2010 at all. And the sound was just killing the whole thing. Yes, there are some answers but why? I mean these answers is just plain bad. It smears 2001: A Space Odyssey's perfection and its mystery. If you have already seen 2001 and liked it, please, don't watch this.

Mr-Fusion "2010" avoids the existential questions that were laid out by its predecessor and goes for the literal approach. Which is a smart move - imitation is not the way to go here. It's pretty straightforward and raises the important narrative questions: What happened to Dave Bowman and HAL9000 during the ill-fated mission? That mystery tugs at the audience from the very pre-credits sequence, and one of the things I love about this movie is finally arriving at Jupiter's moon and seeing the shipwrecked Discovery spinning in place. It's a striking image.Does the movie answer that question? It does, as plainly as possible. And it seeks to leave us with another big scientific development by film's end. This is ultimately a worthy sequel, and the Cold War atmosphere helps add tension. Above all, this is a good cast, and that's what brings me back to this (Roy Scheider has a nice presence here).7/1010