Contact Review |
by Randy Turgeon |
Summary
Eight year old Ellie Arroway (Jena Malone) and her father, Ted (David
Morse), are very close. Her mother died while giving berth to her and her
father never remarried, bringing up Ellie on his own. She is a very
intelligent girl and her hobbies...more |
Contact Review |
by Randy Turgeon |
Summary
Eight year old Ellie Arroway (Jena Malone) and her father, Ted (David
Morse), are very close. Her mother died while giving berth to her and her
father never remarried, bringing up Ellie on his own. She is a very
intelligent girl and her hobbies...more |
Contact Review |
by E. Benjamin Kelsey |
CONTACT is the 1997 movie I've seen the most - five times to be exact. Four of
those times were on the big screen, but even on a TV, it's a very impressive
film. The same can't be said for films like INDEPENDANCE DAY, but that's
because CONTACT is a rare...more |
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by Matt Petras |
This movie is one of the better ones that I have seen in a
long time, although I have not read the book by Carl Sagan I am fairly
sure that this movie does the book justice in every respect. The
acting in this movie is just superb and casting for the...more |
Contact Review |
by Alexadnre Tylski |
If we see Zemeckis' s career, we can say that this is a director quite
interested in the themes of past and youth. In Forrest Gump or in the Back
to the Future trilogy, those themes are explored in every way possible.
With Contact, Zemeckis shows us...more |
Contact Review |
by Choo Eng Aun, Jack |
When I first heard of CONTACT, the hype was building it up as a sci-fi
blockbuster. Now, with that in mind, coupled with the knowledge of Jodie
Foster's involvement in the project, I thought "What in the world is Foster
doing in a sci-fi blockbuster???"....more |
Contact Review |
by Tim Voon |
CONTACT 1997
A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon
4 :-) :-) :-) :-) for the most thought provoking movie I've seen this...more |
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by Tony Tellado |
Contact (review by Tony Tellado - Sci-Fi Talk)
CONTACT is by far the best movie of the summer. It's also probably the
most engaging SF film of the decade. Jodie Foster just can't seem to give
anything less than an Oscar worthy performance and her...more |
Contact Review |
by Kevin Patterson |
Contact is a film that tries to do several different things. It is
intended to present a realistic picture of what alien contact might be like,
to restore a sense of wonder and mystery to the issue of extraterrestrial
life, to raise questions...more |
Contact Review |
by Serdar Yegulalp |
CAPSULE: Intelligent, passionate, and utterly gripping exploration of the
idea of interstellar contact. Makes CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND look
like a very bad episode of STAR TREK. more |
Contact Review |
by Chris Webb |
Cast: Jodie Foster (Ellie Arroway), Matthew McConaughey (Palmer
Joss), James Woods (Michael Kitz), John Hurt (S.R. Hadden)
Tom Skerritt (David Drumlin), Angela Bassett (Rachel
Constantine), Jake Busey (Joseph), Jena Malone (Young...more |
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by Kathy Glaser |
What do you picture in your mind when you hear the words "movie" and
"aliens" together? With the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day you could be
forgiven for associating a movie about aliens with squid-like creatures
that terrorize our planet. But once in...more |
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by C.T.Nadovich |
I always thought he cream and sugared the science too much in an effort
to make it go down layman's throats. To me, that ruins the flavor of
the science itself and distorts its message. I've always preferred my
science black --- expresso black --- but...more |
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by Marty Mapes |
***1/2 (out of 4) Jodie Foster is great, and Zemeckis knows how to use
film technology without compromising a story's humanity, but the real
star of CONTACT is its author, Carl Sagan. more |
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by Chad Polenz |
Contact
Chad'z rating: *** (out of 4 = good)
1997, PG, 150 minutes [2 hours, 30 minutes]
[science fiction/drama]
starring: Jodie Foster (Dr. Ellie Arroway), Matthew McConaughey (Palmer
Joss), Tom Skerrit (Dr. David Drumlin), James Woods (Michael Kitz),...more |
Contact Review |
by Seth Bookey |
Have you ever been to a movie that evokes a wide spectrum of emotions all
within the first twenty minutes or so? Laughter, tears, excitement, and
yes, even a lurid thought or two. It is indeed rare that a movie does all
this so quickly. Contact is one of...more |
Contact Review |
by Andrew Hicks |
There have been so many movies in recent years about
aliens that if any extraterrestrials ever do show up it will certainly be
an anti-climax. CONTACT seems the exception -- no alien
intervention could possibly be as anti-climactic as the last...more |
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by Michael Redman |
There are many times during this film that are remarkably stunning and
completely captivating. For the first time in what seems to be eons, that
statement applies to something other than the effects in a big budget science
fiction movie. What a relief it...more |
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by Ivana Redwine |
Produced by: Warner Bros. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Effects by: Sony
Pictures Imageworks, Cinematography by Don Burgess. Starring: Jodie Foster,
Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Angela Bassett, John Hurt, Rob Lowe, Tom
Skerritt, William Fichtner,...more |
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by Joseph Toscano |
--
July 1997
[PG]
150 Minutes, 2.5 hours
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, John Hurt, Tom Skerrit, James
Woods
Score: ***** / ***** or 9 / 10
SPOILER WARNING - some of the review may contain information regarding...more |
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by Stuart Cracraft |
--A review by Stuart Cracraft
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CONTACT
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, John Hurt
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Star Rating: **** (out of ****)
Rating out of Ten: 9.0
Grade:...more |
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by Steve Kong |
When you look up in the sky late at night, do you ever have the feeling
that another being is doing the same thing light years away? How could
there be so many stars and no other life than just us? It would be a
terrible waste of space wouldn't it? more |
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by Chuck Dowling |
Contact (1997) ** out of ***** - Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey,
James Woods, Tom Skerritt, Angela Bassett, John Hurt, Rob Lowe, David Morse.
Written by: James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg. Based on the novel by:
Carl Sagan. Directed by:...more |
Contact Review |
by Justin K. Siegel |
--A review by Justin Siegel
======================================================================
CONTACT
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Star Rating: **** (out of ****)
Rating out of Ten: 9.8
Grade:...more |
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by Phil Brady |
Summer science fiction movies are a fairly well defined commodity. We
expect a special effects offering of space ships, lasers, aliens,
explosions, and what the hell, maybe even a script. The spectacle is the
star, so there’s little sense spending big...more |
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by Ram Samudrala |
When I was a kid, I was the only one on the block who watched Carl
Sagan's Cosmos diligently. While it was boring even given my interest
in cosmology, there were moments which really enthralled me and
captured my attention. I expected /Contact/ to be...more |
Contact Review |
by Homer Yen |
Jodie Foster plays Ellie Arroway, a prominent scientist and radio
astronomer for the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
program. Like many scientists, she is an analytical person whose beliefs
are entrenched in empirical evidence...more |
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by Michael Jordan |
Contact (PG) **** (out of ****)
There's a moment late in Robert Zemeckis's Contact where I was
reminded of why I started writing movie reviews in the first place. We see
a scientist, dressed in a silvery space suit, walking tentatively across...more |
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by Ben Hoffman |
The opening scene of CONTACT is the most awesome (in the sense of
"fantastic") several minutes of great special effects as we are
hurtled away from Earth at a huge speed. Our planet becomes a
globe, getting smaller and smaller as we speed by the other...more |
Contact Review |
by Walter Frith |
In a summer being bombarded with 100 million dollar spectacles and
action pictures with little or no room to leave an audience breathing, it is
truly refreshing to have a big budget Hollywood film arrive in theatres that
is skillfully presented,...more |
Contact Review |
by Dean Thomas Sebastian Carrano |