|
|
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0085392216017
Format: NTSC
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 153 minutes
Sales Rank: 219504
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1997
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fantastic Sci-Fi movie!!!
Looking back in time modern science fiction had one of its main scientists, writers, philosophers and visionaires in one name: Carl Sagan, the author of the novel in which is based the movie.
The making of the movie gives a very near and sub-realistic intent in the searching of "green littles", all right that maybe means "live in Mars", "Aliens" or just "ET's" but in a very intelligent secuence. Jodie Foster who interprets the scientist Eleanor Arroway and in along the movie is the principal ... Read More
Rating:  - A brilliant treatment of the hypocrisy of religion and establishment.
Contact is avowed atheist Carl Sagan's glorious swan song, a brilliant treatment of the hypocrisy of religion and establishment. Jodie Foster is characteristically excellent as Dr. Ellie Arroway, the gifted astronomer whose discovery of an alien beacon sets off a frenzy for control of how the discovery should be handled. Dr. Arroway is slapped down at every turn by those who do not appreciate her independent thinking. Her dilemma reflects the logical fallacy at the heart of all religion. When she will not ... Read More
Rating: - Awesomw Movie
This is such a great movie. Jodie Foster is really good in this. It Makes you think
Rating:  - Foster makes it fatiguing
For starters, it suffers from a common problem with modern movies: Carefully constructed political correctness. Most of the white males are over-reacting military men, not very bright political consultants, fundamentalist religious figures (some harmless except for being stupid, others terrorists), and scientists willing to take credit that rightly belongs to their female colleagues. Women and minorities, of course, are a different matter. The star is of course a brilliant female scientist. The most level-headed ... Read More
Rating:  - Great story......awful production.
One of the outstanding movies of modern times, both good and bad, Contact is a production of the Carl Sagan novel of the same name.
What makes it one of the most irritating productions of all time (only Twister surpasses it), is Zemeckis' idea that the major players, James Woods, Angela Bassett, and Tom Skerritt all have to act like nannies to properly convey the script.
In one the worst performances of his career, James Woods is downright ridiculous from beginning to end. His obnoxious portrayal ... Read More
|
|
