Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) is determined to find out what happened on that space mission of 2001. Yes this is a late sequel to Kubrick's Classic Sci-fi movie but 2010 is an excellent piece of Sci-fi entertainment in it's own right.
The best part of this underrated film is the casting of the brilliant, Roy Scheider!!!
Scheider is a gem of an actor, a great screen presence that has been entertaining us for years with his Classic roles in Classic films such as the iconic Cheif Brody from the Masterpiece JAWS & jaws 2. Scheider is a childhood hero of mine, a familiar face that I've loved since little & watching the Jaws films & The French Connection & Blue Thunder. Scheider is such a good actor that he brings his average-joe type of front into nearly all his roles & becomes a character that the audience can relate too & genuinely like. Scheider is one of my all-time top favourite actors & i miss him (R. I. P) but he did make an impact on me & the fantasy world of Cinema.
Here Roy Scheider plays Scientist Heywood Floyd, a man obsessed & haunted by not knowing what happened to the previous space team of the first film & wants answers & yes Scheider gives another excellent no-nonsense but very human performance & is the main point of focus/Character of the movie.
I believe the character was played by someone else in the first film but Scheider is always the best choice & he's excellent in carrying this dramatic Sci-fi story.
Floyd is able to catch a ride to space with a Russian team of explorers even if tensions are high with all the Cold War History & with America & Russia above to begin WW3 back on Earth.
Ioved the tense atmosphere & dark look of the film. The special effects are Outstanding considering this was practical effects not silly CGI of today. The movie looks beautiful. The score is fantastic too.
The film had a very SPEILBERG feel to it in my opinion & that's only a good thing. Expertly directed by Peter Hyams, a man who is a great Director & is excellent at Sci-fi stuff (OutLand, Timecop) & crafted a truly creepy & suspenseful Sci-fi Thriller here.
That's another thing i liked about 2010 was it's atmosphere that was intense, uneasy & often creepy.
The whole idea of space is scary to me anyway, all that open blackness of nothingness is terrifying & here it's the environment for our team to be trapped in with strange stuff happening around them.
Helen Mirren is solid as a Russian Captain of the expedition & the excellent John Lithgow gives a superb performance as a panicked engineer that is well out of his depth & is so realistic when he has a full blown panic attack.
2010: The Year We Make Contact is true an underrated Sci-fi Thriller with a top cast & astonishing special effects & a really good suspenseful story with meaning.
This is such comforting entertainment with no bad language or violence but just a nice thick mood of fear & a sense of wonder abit like Spielberg's Classic Close Encounters Of The Third Kind & this should be mentioned with those Classic Sci-fi films.
Roy Scheider is excellent as always & his voice over that happens now & then gives the film a niceness, a comfort & meaning. We grew up watching Scheider so to have Cheif Brody guiding us through this scary space adventure is a huge comfort or it is to me anyway.
Truly an underrated Cult Classic.
The best part of this underrated film is the casting of the brilliant, Roy Scheider!!!
Scheider is a gem of an actor, a great screen presence that has been entertaining us for years with his Classic roles in Classic films such as the iconic Cheif Brody from the Masterpiece JAWS & jaws 2. Scheider is a childhood hero of mine, a familiar face that I've loved since little & watching the Jaws films & The French Connection & Blue Thunder. Scheider is such a good actor that he brings his average-joe type of front into nearly all his roles & becomes a character that the audience can relate too & genuinely like. Scheider is one of my all-time top favourite actors & i miss him (R. I. P) but he did make an impact on me & the fantasy world of Cinema.
Here Roy Scheider plays Scientist Heywood Floyd, a man obsessed & haunted by not knowing what happened to the previous space team of the first film & wants answers & yes Scheider gives another excellent no-nonsense but very human performance & is the main point of focus/Character of the movie.
I believe the character was played by someone else in the first film but Scheider is always the best choice & he's excellent in carrying this dramatic Sci-fi story.
Floyd is able to catch a ride to space with a Russian team of explorers even if tensions are high with all the Cold War History & with America & Russia above to begin WW3 back on Earth.
Ioved the tense atmosphere & dark look of the film. The special effects are Outstanding considering this was practical effects not silly CGI of today. The movie looks beautiful. The score is fantastic too.
The film had a very SPEILBERG feel to it in my opinion & that's only a good thing. Expertly directed by Peter Hyams, a man who is a great Director & is excellent at Sci-fi stuff (OutLand, Timecop) & crafted a truly creepy & suspenseful Sci-fi Thriller here.
That's another thing i liked about 2010 was it's atmosphere that was intense, uneasy & often creepy.
The whole idea of space is scary to me anyway, all that open blackness of nothingness is terrifying & here it's the environment for our team to be trapped in with strange stuff happening around them.
Helen Mirren is solid as a Russian Captain of the expedition & the excellent John Lithgow gives a superb performance as a panicked engineer that is well out of his depth & is so realistic when he has a full blown panic attack.
2010: The Year We Make Contact is true an underrated Sci-fi Thriller with a top cast & astonishing special effects & a really good suspenseful story with meaning.
This is such comforting entertainment with no bad language or violence but just a nice thick mood of fear & a sense of wonder abit like Spielberg's Classic Close Encounters Of The Third Kind & this should be mentioned with those Classic Sci-fi films.
Roy Scheider is excellent as always & his voice over that happens now & then gives the film a niceness, a comfort & meaning. We grew up watching Scheider so to have Cheif Brody guiding us through this scary space adventure is a huge comfort or it is to me anyway.
Truly an underrated Cult Classic.