Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Lasse G — 24 Apr 2016

It's always hard to achieve something. To capture people. To entertain people. But Stanley Kubrick always managed to do that with his movies and having now watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" a couple of times, I can officially say that I understand what Kubrick did with this movie.

Do I like it? Oh, yes. This is an amazing movie. You are constantly wondering about what's happening on the screen and your mind is constantly working at full speed. You are taken through many different decades and for every decade we go through, we achieve a little more knowledge about how our species are evolving.

This is by far the most technically advanced movie that Kubrick has ever made - and even though he also made great movies like "Full Metal Jacket" and "Dr. Strangelove" - this movie also has the best plot of all them if you are able to see through the very trippy aspects of this masterpiece.

You just need to believe that you can understand this movie, and then in the end: you will...