2010 - The Year We Make Contact (DVD) > Reviews

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. Directed by ... Read review

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 ... Read review