Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Roy Scheider | ... | Dr. Heywood Floyd | |
John Lithgow | ... | Dr. Walter Curnow | |
Helen Mirren | ... | Tanya Kirbuk | |
Bob Balaban | ... | Dr. R. Chandra | |
Keir Dullea | ... | Dave Bowman | |
Douglas Rain | ... | HAL 9000 (voice) | |
Madolyn Smith Osborne | ... | Caroline Floyd (as Madolyn Smith) | |
Dana Elcar | ... | Dimitri Moisevitch | |
Taliesin Jaffe | ... | Christopher Floyd | |
James McEachin | ... | Victor Milson | |
Mary Jo Deschanel | ... | Betty Fernandez | |
Elya Baskin | ... | Maxim Brajlovsky | |
Saveliy Kramarov | ... | Dr. Vladimir Rudenko (as Savely Kramarov) | |
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Oleg Rudnik | ... | Dr. Vasili Orlov |
Natasha Shneider | ... | Irina Yakunina |
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint American-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Amongst the mysteries the expedition must explain, are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L.; the Discovery's A.I. computer. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
I was lucky - I read 2001 before I saw the movie, so I knew what the heck was going on. That enabled me to enjoy the movie and its artistic visualization of what was going on. I think the same thing applies here - if you've read the sequel 2010, you'd enjoy the movie more.
Is 2010 as good as the original? Nope, but then again 2001 was one of the best ever. This is a very good movie for its time, it helps to understand the cold war that was going on in 1984 when it was made. I'm not a big Roy Scheider fan, but he did OK in the movie. What I liked best is that it was very faithful to the book and makes Sci Fi into an art. Aurther C Clarke is so popular because he makes you see the beauty and wonder of what is out there, what is possible.
2010, like 2001, is a great visualization of what Clarke is writing about. Man's search for the truth, the meaning of life, what is important to us as a race. To me, that is all very interesting.