Average Rating: 6.8/10
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The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the seemingly unknowable: working with a group that monitors radio waves from space, Ellie hopes that some day she will receive a coherent message from another world that will prove that there is a world beyond
PG, 2 hr. 30 min.
Jul 11, 1997 Wide
Dec 16, 1997
Warner Home Video
All Critics (62) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (23) | DVD (23)
Something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance.
When it's good, it's very good. And when it's not, it can be as silly and self-important as a bad '50s sci-fi movie.
Top CriticLike Jodie Foster's hopeful space voyager in the picture, "Contact" may not travel quite as far as it hopes to go, but the trip is worth taking nonetheless.
Begins with a big bang, gradually falls into a lull and finally succumbs to entropy.
Top CriticContact takes forever to lift off.
When it tries to personify the struggle between skepticism and faith in the relationship between Ellie and her theologian boyfriend, it becomes flat and obvious.
Thoughtful adaptation of the Carl Sagan novel.
Uma ficção científica que confere peso semelhante aos dois termos do gênero: se sua narrativa ficcional é intrigante e bem desenvolvida, sua ciência jamais se entrega ao implausível.
...exactly the kind of movie that makes high-definition reproduction so much fun. (Blu-ray Edition)
...one of the best pure science-fiction films since 2001.
No wonder the astronomer's philosophy of contact boils down to this: Don't call me, I'll call you.
With all the science and technology, Zemeckis and the writers made room for spiritual debates (some of them painfully slight), political commentary, and a strangely tepid and inert romance...
Magical, captivating entertainment.
When Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be. The rest is pandering.
The result is a film far too cold-blooded for summer audiences.
Features heavy-handed exposition, repetitive, maudlin flashbacks, uneven performances and endless sermonising.
Foster's voyage is an astronomical letdown, largely because Zemeckis' ideas of heaven and earth don't extend beyond what can be envisioned as a celluloid event.
It is a good sci-fi yarn.
By hating the two-dimensional villain ... the audience feels they have found 'the bad guy' and aren't challenged to consider the flimsiness in Arroway's or Josse's perspectives.
The story doesn't always do justice to the mind-bending visual opening of Robert Zemeckis' movie, which features Jodie Foster as an annoyingly intense scientist.
It's nice to see a science-fiction movie go into depth about things and not just have aliens blowing things up everywhere. Discussions about religion and the existence of god, relationships, space and other things really give great depth to the movie and it's characters. The concept here is great and original, and
December 29, 2011Super Reviewer
I loved the novel profoundly, but for this movie, it falls short.
October 31, 2011Super Reviewer
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