For the time, I suppose this movie was quite mind-bending - and mold-breaking. For me, this movie was "okay". After sitting through 2001, I expected something better the NEXT time around. This WAS better - and I do love John Lithgow - so this one had promise.
After seeing The Discovery not reach it's destination (Jupiter) in 2001, the people in this movie (supposedly NINE years later, in all actuality, it was 16 years later) are anxious to find out what went wrong with the crew that made the first journey. Why did the computer (HAL 9000) malfunction? Why were astronauts in hibernation die? Why did the two men watching over them die and/or go missing? So many questions and no answers.
The Americans were building a new space station - and planning to go soon, but still 2 years from being ready. The Russians were very close to have the ways, but still did not understand the means. The movie supposes that the cold war never ended (isn't it funny how soon we forget a life where the Russian people are not an enemy?) so the two have to find some common ground on which to take off from. :)
Together, they travel up to see what happened to The Discovery and to see what intelligent life might exist. Down below on earth, tensions increase between Soviet Russia and the US. Before long, tensions mount on the ship too as they get closer to discovering alien life in another system...but how much will the discovery of The Discovery change the lives of everyone else on earth?
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