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Contact
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
| Release : | 1997 |
| Rating : | 7.5 |
| Studio : | Warner Bros. Pictures, South Side Amusement Company, |
| Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
| Cast : | Jodie Foster Matthew McConaughey James Woods John Hurt Tom Skerritt |
| Genre : | Drama Science Fiction Mystery |
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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Brilliant , i hope for a reamake. Whith the same actor... And nolahn on the wheel.
It's hard to evaluate such brilliant movies like that. You see through the movie some deep thoughts you were searching for. What about intelligent life beyond Earth? Are we alone? But when finally the contact was made no one believes you. Thanks to Jodie Foster this movie is a dream come true for many sci-fi lovers. She played perfectly and made the story very special. Excellent in all ways.
Robert Zemeckis's Contact is based on Carl Sagan's famous novel by the same name and it is one hell of a film. Rightly called the thinking man's science fiction this movie contains many awe inspiring scenes. The opening shot which pans back into space, quietly humbling us by reminding our insignificance, the transmission and receiving of the signal, the machine and teleportation of Jodie Foster in it to meet the "makers", this film is filled with such scenes and joining them together is a fantastic story with an excellent pacing. Contact polarized critics but this is a very good film and features some great performances by Jodie Foster, Mathew Mcconaughey and others.
The film is basically about science and what answers we can get from it, it's much less an alien movie than a film about science vs religion. That said, with the 21st century great minds (e.g William Lane Craig) proving that this is not a battle but rather a common field used to prove both professions. Understanding Descartes even more eliminates the lines. It might be entertaing and a good watch if one just wants to see good sci-fi, but the overspanning message of the film simply cannot be taken seriously 20 years later
