| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | Cinema |
Cold War in Space
More of an homage to Stanley Kubrick’s earlier film 2001: A Space Odyssey than a film in its own right.
Lacking much of the allegorical meat of the first film this tries hard to be literary rather than cinematic - as per Arthur Clarke’s novels - and ends up falling between two stools. Clarke’s drippy Hippie outlook on life appears naive and childlike and ruins an otherwise enjoyable movie with excellent special-effects.
This is the kind of film making that is all too perfunctory and lacks a soul although it tries its best, but was never likely to equal the original in either breadth or depth.
This film also oddly tries to provide a gloss for the first film and a kind of explanation and an exegesis. The attempt to reduce something quite mysterious to a facile explanation contradicts the potential for wonder and awe that cinema possesses and depletes the story of human potential we are allegedly witnessing.
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