Rotten
Flash: There is intelligent life in outer space. More, anyway, than in this amiable footnote of a movie.
TIME Magazine
2010
In the very near future, a small group of Americans and Russians set out on the greatest adventure of them all...to see if there is life beyond the stars.
1984 · 1h 56m · PG
Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Peter Hyams
Overview
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Director and cast
- Peter Hyams Director
- Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood Floyd
- John Lithgow as Dr. Walter Curnow
- Helen Mirren as Tanya Kirbuk
- Bob Balaban as Dr. R. Chandra
- Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman
- Dana Elcar as Dimitri Moisevitch
- Douglas Rain as HAL 9000
- Taliesin Jaffe as Christopher Floyd
- James McEachin as Victor Milson
- Savely Kramarov as Dr. Vladimir Rudenko
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
66%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A hodge-podge of bits and pieces.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A good-looking, sharp-edged, entertaining, exciting space opera.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A lot of care has gone into it, but it has no satirical substructure to match that of the Kubrick film, and which was eventually responsible for that film's continuing popularity.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Now that enough time has elapsed since the release of 2010 for outraged 2001 fans to calm down, it can be seen that, while there was no decisive creative reason for Hyams' sequel to exist, it's not a bad movie.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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