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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Time OutTime OutHyams has not come up with a climax to match Kubrick's rush through the star-gate; but this is still space fiction of a superior kind, making the Star Trek movies look puny by comparison.
- 80The A.V. ClubThe A.V. Club2010 is an essential text of the late Cold War.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertYou have to make some distinctions in your mind. In one category, "2001: A Space Odyssey" remains inviolate, one of the handful of true film masterpieces. In a more temporal sphere, "2010" qualifies as superior entertainment, a movie more at home with technique than poetry, with character than with mystery, a movie that explains too much and leaves too little to our sense of wonderment, but a good movie all the same.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAlmost paradoxically, 2010 may be unnecessary, but it is nevertheless a worthwhile effort.
- 60The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyA perfectly adequate though not really comparable - sequel to Stanley Kubrick's witty, mind- bending science-fiction classic, ''2001: A Space Odyssey.'
- 60EmpireIan NathanEmpireIan NathanNot a masterpiece, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's pleasing to see a sequel strive so hard to reach the same heights. That it fails is through no fault of its own - the original simply raised the bar too high.
- 60TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAs a standard science-fiction film, 2010 is fine. It has all the right plot elements, dramatic tension, and eye-popping special effects. The performances are uniformly good, the space-adventure scenes are excitingly handled, and the reappearance of HAL 9000 and Dullea is downright eerie. Yet it's hard to get over the fact that the purpose of this film is to tear down all the awe-inspiring effects of 2001. The sequel simply fails to fascinate and awe us like the original did.
- 30Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe bucketloads of sanctimonious message mongering ladled on by director Peter Hyams still can't disguise the sheerly mercenary basis of this 1986 project, a wholly uncalled-for sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001.