Contact | Jena Malone, David Morse | I Love This Movie!!!

Contact | Jena Malone, David Morse | "I'm okay to go!"

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Contact

	Contact Jena Malone, David Morse Warner Studios, 1997 average customer review:based on 421 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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

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I Love This Movie!!!

I have always been a science buff and a science fiction fan. This movie was wonderful. I think it is not far off to what our reaction would be if we were contacted by others in the galaxy. Jodie Foster was wonderful as Ellie Arraway and the spirit of the book was carried over into the film. The film does take some liberties with characters and what occured in the book but that was only to make it fit into a 2 hour movie.

"I'm okay to go!"

I saw this movie when it first came out, and at the time, although I didn't really understand the premise, something about it stuck with me as I grew. Now, after purchasing this movie and having had the opportunity to sit and watch it again, I see that it truly is a work of art.

Jodie Foster does an amzing job in her role as the first person from our world to EVER make "Contact." While many others shoot her thoughts, ideas, and hopes down throughout the movie, she never wavers once! Standing firmly in her convictions as a scientist, she aims to make believers of us all.

Although I am not a big Matthew McConaughey fan, he does a solid job as Foster's polar opposite. Another thing i liked is, although they are very opposite in opinions of the world, they can co-exhist and share one common thing: love. Now, you may be thinking "oh there's a love story here?" Yes, but it never distracts from the overall story; and at a crucial part, even helps to enhance it further.

Very, very solid acting and storytelling in this one. The directing is also some of the best I've seen. Add this to the astounding special-effects used, and you have yourself a pretty good movie!

Highly recommended!

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Very enjoyable

I thought this was a very interesting movie and that it was made believable by the great perormance of Jodi Foster. If another actress had tried to pull this off, it might not have worked. This is not your usual "contact with extraterrestrails" movie and that makes it refreshing too. Also, we get some real science tossed in. Cosmos fans will undoubtedly recognize some of Sagan's lessons scattered here and there.

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