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Audience Member Far too artsy for me. Couldn't find the motivation to keep paying attention to this one. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/22/24 Full Review Der I Really interesting philosophical questions (what is real, how to deal with your own thoughts), but in a very slow manner. You have to be prepared for nearly three hours of no action. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/06/24 Full Review Joseph M I yawned into my trousers. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/28/24 Full Review Fer S I did not enjoy it. I thought the plot took a disappointing and not interesting path. I found it unnecessarily long. The ending was good, but it did not make up for everything else. There was also one scene that was totally unrealistic. Would have been nice if Tarkovsky had asked an engineer how hot a rocket's exhaust actually is. The acting is good and the scenography was nice. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/01/24 Full Review Matt W Feels like a high school art/movie project. It has it all: Poor special effects; characters randomly changing their minds mid-scene; inexplicable scene jumps; a very long scene of a car just going along a freeway; another of the protagonist walking around a lake; another just slowly scanning a painting; a short and pointless zero gravity scene; an astronaut who packs cigarettes and home movies; unexplained loud off-camera noises; burn makeup that looks like they just glued some plastic bubbles on the actor’s face; an “alien” planet that is clearly a bit of Earth filmed out the window of a domestic airline flight; impenetrable symbolism; and some of the greatest over-acting and under-acting you’ll ever see in the same place. By the 2 and a half hour mark you’re begging for it to be over, yet it has new lows to plumb. It’s a hard work for the viewer to sit through the self-indulgent direction to get to the central themes and a few great lines that aren’t really all that profound. One minor saving grace is the very end, without giving it away, its prescient in the way it foreshadows how an AI (or in the movie’s case, an alien intelligence) might have a warped and mis-edited view of being human. It’s uncanny. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/21/24 Full Review Ralf K Surely a slow burn, especially compared to the US version, but a must for any Sci-Fi fan see nonetheless. One oft the most iconic book of Sci-Fi translated into a thoughtful, thought-provoking and visually satisfying magnum opus. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/08/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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