2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 11
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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
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Movie Info
This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001. Scheider's polyglot crew includes Americans John Lithgow and Bob Balaban (the latter a computer whiz, responsible for the notorious HAL 9000) and Russians Helen Mirren, Elya Baskin and Natasha Schneider.
Dec 7, 1984 Wide
Aug 25, 1998
MGM/UA Entertainment Company
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Cast
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Roy Scheider
Heywood Floyd -
John Lithgow
Walter Curnow -
Helen Mirren
Tanya Kirbuk -
Bob Balaban
R. Chandra -
Keir Dullea
Dave Bowman -
Douglas Rain
HAL 9000 -
Madolyn Smith Osborn...
Caroline Floyd -
Dana Elcar
Dimitri Moisevitch -
Taliesin Jaffe
Christopher Floyd -
James McEachin
Victor Milson -
Mary Jo Deschanel
Betty Fernandez -
Elya Baskin
Maxim Brailovsky -
Savely Kramarov
Vladimir Rudenko -
Oleg Rudnick
Vasali Orlov -
Vladimir Skomarovsky
Yuri Svetlanov -
Victor Steinbach
Mikolai Ternovsky -
Jan Triska
Alexander Kovalev -
Herta Ware
Jessie Bowman -
Arthur C. Clarke
Man on Park Bench -
Candice Bergen
SAL 9000 -
Cheryl Carter
Nurse -
Robert Lesser
Dr. Hirsch -
Delana Michaels
Commercial Announcer -
Ron Recasner
Hospital Neurosurgeo... -
Larry Carroll
Anchorman -
Natasha Schneider
Irina Yakunina -
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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (11) | DVD (13)
Flash: There is intelligent life in outer space. More, anyway, than in this amiable footnote of a movie.
Top CriticA hodge-podge of bits and pieces.
Hyams' sequel to Kubrick's big daddy of sci-fi movies may not have the novelty of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it is still a better film than anyone could have dared to expect.
Top CriticA good-looking, sharp-edged, entertaining, exciting space opera.
A lot of care has gone into it, but it has no satirical substructure to match that of the Kubrick film, and which was eventually responsible for that film's continuing popularity.
Now that enough time has elapsed since the release of 2010 for outraged 2001 fans to calm down, it can be seen that, while there was no decisive creative reason for Hyams' sequel to exist, it's not a bad movie.
It has all the right plot elements, dramatic tension, and eye-popping special effects. The performances are uniformly good, the space-adventure scenes are excitingly handled, and the reappearance of HAL 9000 and Dullea is downright eerie.
It can't hope to compete with Kubrick, but if you can distance Peter Hyams's picture from its formidable forerunner, you'll find a thoughtful and sometimes unforgettable science-fiction fable.
A much slicker, studio-friendly job than the first one was, with its much more famous cast, and its easier aesthetic.
What is 2010 but a conservative Cold War "message" flick.
...a good, well-made, tightly-knit, nicely-acted science-fiction sequel, yet one that clearly lacks the vision and scope of its illustrious predecessor.
A wholly thrilling, beautifully shot sequel to a sci-fi classic
A vastly underappreciated sequel with a fine lead performance by Roy Scheider. Director Peter Hyams took a huge gamble, and succeeds beautifully.
Scheider does a fine job in an above average film.
A wondrous piece of science fiction.
Sahmthing...WAHNderful! Well, almost, anyway. Piece of pie.
Horrible sequel to the classic 2001.
2001 was dull and mystifying. This is just dull.
Surprisingly good sequel to an untouchable classic.
Not nearly the addicting mind-trip that "2001" is, but not half-bad in its own right.
The build-up to this and the initial moments on board are racked with a tension that's superbly handled by Hyams. He maintains the forbidding atmosphere well and his skills as a cinematographer are evident.
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- Maxim Brailovsky: Piece of pie.
- Walter Curnow: No, piece of cake, cake.
- Maxim Brailovsky: Easy as cake.
- Walter Curnow: No, easy as pie, pie.
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