The Space Odyssey Series

Thriller

Science Fiction

2010

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

United States of America

English

Pусский

Roy Scheider

John Lithgow

Helen Mirren

Bob Balaban

Keir Dullea

Douglas Rain

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Savely Kramarov

Taliesin Jaffe

James McEachin

Mary Jo Deschanel

Ilya Baskin

Dana Elcar

Oleg Rudnik

Natasha Shneider

Vladimir Skomarovsky

Victor Steinbach

Candice Bergen

Gene McGarr

Herta Ware

Jan Tříska

Larry Carroll

Cheryl Carter

Ron Recasner

Robert Lesser

Delana Michaels

Arthur C. Clarke

Peter Hyams

David Shire

Albert Brenner

Rick Simpson

Patricia Norris

Penny Perry

Mia Goldman

James Mitchell

Nancy McArdle

Bruce Walkup

Mic Rodgers

Greg Papalia

Gregory Pickrell

Richard L. Anderson

Dale Strumpell

Carlos Delarios

Michael J. Kohut

Ray O'Reilly

Aaron Rochin

Gregory L. McMurry

M. James Arnett

Ralph Gerling

Bruce McBroom

William Saracino

Randy Peters

Mario Iscovich

Paul Huston

Alan B. Curtiss

David B. Brenner

William Ladd Skinner

Kandy Stern

Michael J. Benavente

Gene S. Cantamessa

James Christopher

Donald Flick

Warren Hamilton Jr.

Vince Melandri

David E. Stone

Robin Haskins

Tim Mangini

Dan Sharp

David Blitstein

Andy Evans

Robert Harman

Henry Millar Jr.

William Guest

Doug Hubbard

Jim Burk

James M. Halty

Freddie Hice

Gary Morgan

D. Michael Wheeler

Don E. FauntLeRoy

Burke Mattsson

Juniko Moody

John C. Meier

Marty Wunderlich

Vivian McAteer

Michael Westmore

William S. Beasley

John Baron

Marshall Schlom

Linda Klein

_**Another trip to Jupiter to find answers**_

After the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. Several years later, the Soviets send the spacecraft Leonov & crew to Jupiter along with three Americans, including Floyd, to help investigate Discovery and the malfunction of the vessel's sentient computer, HAL 9000. Keir Dullea returns as the missing astronaut David Bowman while Helen Mirren plays the captain of the Leonov. Bob Balaban and John Lithgow also appear as the other two American astronauts.

"2010: The Year We Make Contact" (1984) is realistic science-fiction that’s less artsy and more dramatically compelling compared to its predecessor, “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968). That doesn’t make it better, of course, just different. “2001” raised questions while this one provides answers, which some people inevitably won’t like. The questions include: Why did HAL malfunction? What was the real reason for Discovery's original mission, unknown to Floyd? What happened to Bowman? What is the purpose of the colossal monolith orbiting Jupiter? 

Both films compliment and counterbalance each other. This one’s more of a straightforward space adventure in the near future. Unlike Star Wars, which is space fantasy, “2010” is space-oriented adult science-fiction. Star Trek is too, but “2010” is far more realistic, which I appreciate. In other words, don’t expect any Klingons or spacecraft dogfights. This is more along the lines of “Mission to Mars” (2000) and “The Martian” (2015).

The film runs 1 hours, 56 minutes.

GRADE: B

A much more standard affair compared to its predecessor.

Given that's the case, I honestly enjoyed this more than <em>'2001: A Space Odyssey'</em> - if only because it's more closer to what I'd personally want from a film than what that 1968 flick offers, which is moreso an attempted art piece. Of course, the original does things visibly and audibly far, far greater than this 1984 release - just plot-wise, this is better in my opinion.

That's not to say that <em>'2010'</em> is something I'd consider great, because I wouldn't. It is, though, solid sci-fi fare, one I had a decent time watching. I'm not a fan of recasts, but Roy Scheider does a good job in place of William Sylvester as Heywood Floyd. Bob Balaban does well, while it's neat to see John Lithgow and Helen Mirren involved.

I'm somewhat surprised (but agreeable) that this has, seemingly, been fairly well received. I was expecting it to be poorly thought of by the majority, as is usually the case for sequels of iconic movies that aren't cut from the same cloth; different director etc.

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Cast

Roy Scheider

John Lithgow

Helen Mirren

Bob Balaban

Keir Dullea

Douglas Rain

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Savely Kramarov

Taliesin Jaffe

James McEachin

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