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.

Gran, gran película, una de esas que merecería más páginas...

Even the computer generated graphics are a bad fit.

A rare find -- a science-fiction film more interested in ideas than scary critters.

You've got some great moments and an intriguing, haunting last act, but most of the movie isn't very exceptional.

...credit the makers of Contact... with making precisely the kind of movie that we imagine [Carl] Sagan would have wanted made.

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.

Offers an inspired and inspiring close encounter with the ineffable mystery that lies at the heart of each individual and at the core of the majestic universe.