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 %119 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
89 %300,596 reviewsAudience score rating
"With the release of Stanley Kubrick's enigmatic space spectacle in 1968, the science-fiction film finally came of age."
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?"
Time Out"Somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring."
The New York Times"Like all good speculations, it leaves the spectator up in the air with a tantalising vision as food for thought."
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."
Roger Ebert"Awesome, influential, mind-blowing, cool, obsessional, pretentious."
Empire Magazine2001: A Space Odyssey | Details
Award winner- Best Special Visual Effects, Academy Awards 1969
- Runtime
- 141
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Country of origin
- UK, USA
