Contact Movie Review
Contact Review
"Contact" Overview
Rating: PG
1997
Cast and Crew
Director : Robert ZemeckisProducer : Steve Starkey,Robert Zemeckis
Screenwiter : James V. Hart,Michael Goldenberg
Starring : Jena Malone,David Morse,Jodie Foster,Geoffrey Blake,William Fichtner,Matthew McConaughey,Tom Skerritt,Thomas Garner,James Woods,Vance Valencia,Angela Bassett,Tabitha Soren,Geraldo Rivera,Ian Whitcomb,Jay Leno,Natalie Allen,Robert D. Novak,Geraldine A. Ferraro,Ann Druyan,Rob Lowe,Jake Busey,Kathleen Kennedy,Michael Albala,William Jordan,Leo Lee,John Hurt
Apparently, we are not alone. And we're beaming The Spice Girls into space.
But seriously, Carl Sagan's ode to the superior intelligence of aliens (and how
us darned humans mess everything up) is consistently beautiful and interesting,
but it never makes a point (except for that bit about the darned humans). The
plot, which gives Jodie Foster schematics from space and focuses on the
technical and bureaucratic minutiae that go into the construction of an
extradimensional travelling device, is rather on the nose -- and the only real
surprises in the film come from its obsession with God (in which the late Sagan
did not believe) and the complete and utter disappointment received with the
aliens are finally revealed.
Recommended for its looks, and not highly.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
