2010

The sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey" is in American storytelling hands. It is in no way innovative, but I was actually quite content to have logic put into the narrative holes its predecessor was full of. A joint American-Russian expedition returns to Jupiter to find out what happened to the crew of the spaceship Discovery, why the computer HAL rebelled, and what the meaning of the black monolith's signal towards Jupiter was. Helen Mirren plays the leader of the Russian team, while Roy Scheider heads the Americans.

Stanley Kubrick's riddles are solved in this sequel, which has a very handsome and not particularly enigmatic ending. Black monoliths are swarming around Jupiter's moons, and they have a very specific mission, which the expedition witnesses.