2010-**-Not Good- Directed by: Peter Hyams, Written by: Peter Hyams, Arthur C. Clarke (Novel), Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Madolyn Smith, Dana Eclar, Elya Baskin, Savely Kramarov, voice of Douglas Rain.
Peter Hyams tries to match Stanley Kubrick's brilliance with his sequel to the 1968 masterpiece from the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. This time the story involves an astronaut mission nine years after the events of the first film back to the spacecraft lost near Jupiter. A new wave of discovery is soon to follow.
The genius of Kubrick's original film was its avant-garde style. His refusal to dumb down his film to studio expectations and his use of brilliant symbolism throughout. This film has many positive things going for it such as the entertainment value and a hard to beat cast, but it lacks the figurative approach that made 2001 such an enlightening experience.
Hyams takes everything literally and that diminishes the impact of the story. The ending is not even close to the ending of the first film. We do not think anything about this ending, it is just there and once we watch it, we are done with the process. There is no thinking process, we do not contemplate anything and thus, Hyams fails both his artistic subject matter and his homage to the original film.
Peter Hyams tries to match Stanley Kubrick's brilliance with his sequel to the 1968 masterpiece from the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. This time the story involves an astronaut mission nine years after the events of the first film back to the spacecraft lost near Jupiter. A new wave of discovery is soon to follow.
The genius of Kubrick's original film was its avant-garde style. His refusal to dumb down his film to studio expectations and his use of brilliant symbolism throughout. This film has many positive things going for it such as the entertainment value and a hard to beat cast, but it lacks the figurative approach that made 2001 such an enlightening experience.
Hyams takes everything literally and that diminishes the impact of the story. The ending is not even close to the ending of the first film. We do not think anything about this ending, it is just there and once we watch it, we are done with the process. There is no thinking process, we do not contemplate anything and thus, Hyams fails both his artistic subject matter and his homage to the original film.