Contact (1997)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:35
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 33 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who... [More]
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Reviews for Contact
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 8/10 |
...one of the best pure science-fiction films since 2001. Full Review |
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No wonder the astronomer's philosophy of contact boils down to this: Don't call me, I'll call you. Full Review |
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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... Full Review |
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4/4 |
Magical, captivating entertainment. Full Review |
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Contact takes forever to lift off. Full Review |
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When Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be. The rest is pandering. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
The result is a film far too cold-blooded for summer audiences. Full Review |
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Features heavy-handed exposition, repetitive, maudlin flashbacks, uneven performances and endless sermonising. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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B+ |
It is a good sci-fi yarn. Full Review |
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B |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Gran, gran película, una de esas que merecería más páginas... Full Review |
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2/4 |
Even the computer generated graphics are a bad fit. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A rare find -- a science-fiction film more interested in ideas than scary critters. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
You've got some great moments and an intriguing, haunting last act, but most of the movie isn't very exceptional. Full Review |
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B |
...credit the makers of Contact... with making precisely the kind of movie that we imagine [Carl] Sagan would have wanted made. Full Review |
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The build-up of the film is exceptionally well written, as ``Contact'' gives us two attractive adults who actually discuss issues and concepts instead of trading coy double entendres. Full Review |
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