Production Year: 1984 - Science Fiction - Director: Peter Hyams - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Helen Mirren, Keir Dullea more
A team of American and Soviet astronauts travel in search of the lost ship Discovery as Cold War strife boils over back on Earth. A breathtaking if far less allegorical sequel to... more...the sci-fi classic 2001 - A SPACE ODYSSEY.
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Advantages: Retains some sense of enigma Disadvantages: Poor special effects, poor music, poor acting, poor directing
...of a powerful cosmic mystery, 2010 ploughs linearly through a step-by-step revealing of 2001's secrets in a way that betrays the depth of its questions by delivering overly simplistic answers. We discover why the HAL 9000 computer malfunctioned, and some of what happened to David Bowman - but thankfully the film leaves several questions open - and this is better than it answering every question in the same overly simplistic manner.
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Advantages: Interactive menus and scene selection. Nice quality image, crisp and clear picture Disadvantages: Disappointing lack of features let this DVD down.
This is classic Sci-Fi at it's best. The sequel to 2001 - A Space Odyssey picks up the story nine years later when a mission is launched to find out what exactly went wrong with the space-ship Discovery, it's missing crew and the psychopathic computer HAL-9000.
The film picks up where 2001 left off with the spaceship Discovery in deteriorating orbit around Jupiter. Back on Earth a mission is planned to rescue the sticken ship and reactivate HAL ...
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