2010: The Year We Make Contact

1984 • 115 minutes

4.4

476 reviews

67%

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Eligible

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About this movie

The thrilling sequel to Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey," stars Academy Award-nominee Roy Scheider ("Jaws," "All That Jazz") as an American astronaut sent on a joint U.S.-Soviet space mission to Jupiter in an effort to find out what happened to the missing crew of the original Jupiter mission. Co-starring Oscar-nominees Helen Mirren (TV's "Prime Suspect," "The Madness of King George") and Emmy-winner John Lithgow ("Terms of Endearment", TV's "Third Rock from the Sun"). MPAA Rating: PG © 1984 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved

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4.4

476 reviews

Edward Bryan

September 4, 2014

This isn't a very good movie, while it does a decent job of adapting the novel it actually take away from Kubrick's film, which intentionally left pieces of the story ambiguous (creating a better film).

4 people found this review helpful

J Harrison

January 24, 2019

It's good. Well worth watching but it just didn't capture the beauty and boldness of the original. It begins it's failure with that awful over curved #"2" in the title font. The whole movie is like a big blockbuster apology for the first movie. So disappointing. Like everything that's come after.

9 people found this review helpful

Steven Liang

June 16, 2021

I might have watched this 30 years ago. The first film tackled space, its mystery, its potential, its danger in an unrepeatable way. Though this second movie has a logical conclusion from the events of the first, it did not have to end that way. The fact it follow through with big ideas is impressive. This is a very good follow up from the first. Everyone in the film, the set, the acting, cinematography, direction are all top of their game.