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Contact review by Garfield Kennedy
Hollywood does good!
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This eponomously-named film is based closely on cosmologist Carl Sagan's book. It handles big ideas with a fair degree of integrity and apart from Mathew McConaughey's rather pop-up performance as an unlikely Fundamentalist preacher friend of Ellie (Jodie Foster), is a realistic portrayal of what might just happen if we really did make contact with aliens. The only other films that handles this sort of material well (i.e. not like the comic-book Star Wars or Star Trek) is Kubrick's 2001 and, arguably, Aliens. Robert Zemeckis is associated with lighter fare (Back to the Future, Roger Rabbit) but here he allows Sagan's vision and challenging ideas to shine - albeit in a glossy Hollywood-ized wrap-around. And no, I don't buy John Hurt's mega-mogul character - but it's still a good device to stitch the film together and keep the action moving along. If you haven't seen CONTACT, it's a great ride - and marvel at the wonderful opening pull-back through space... truly inspirational and (really) awesome!
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Contact review by JD
Jodie excels.
(0) of (1) members found this review helpful.
The plot is interesting if a little stretched. The conflict of religion and science is interestingly explored and the possibility of extraterrestrial life (hardly new) is also thoughtfully approached. Some of the scientist minor roles are well played but generally it is quite ordinary. The dazzling performance of Jodie is slightly out of kilter with this making her look a bit too dramatic. I appreciated it though. McConaughey who I think is so good in Sahara is a bit 2-D in this, I think he played it the same way. The 18 hours of space travel is very good and feels great, wish I'd seen it at the cinema.
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