2/4  Contact
Contact is one of Robert Zemeckis's most disappointing films. It has a well written screenplay and good special effects but it's slow and downright boring. Jodie Foster is good in her role, Jena Malone is good as young jodie and William Fi... (read full)

2.5/4  All depends on one scene.
A movie you watch and are interested in throughout and you continue to watch for awhile longer. Then bam you get hit up with the pay off and it all depends on how you feel about that payoff that makes this film good or not. I am mixed with... (read full)

4/4  King Of Sci-Fi
A virtual rarity in sci-fi movies and soon to be an extinction based on the box office totals of the past few years, Contact delivers a perfect blend of budget and story to produce the best sci-fi movie ever made. The age old question of... (read full)

4/4  "I didn't know"
I read the book and this film is magnificent adaptation. What I really enjoyed is the aproach they made to the aliens. They're not any kind of puppets, or stereotype... they're there. They're a concept, or a sound... a pulse. I love Jodie ... (read full)

2.5/4  Contact Quick Review
I was kinda disappointed with this movie. I was expecting a lot more.

2/4  Contact Quick Review
I never really got into this film. Conceptually, it should work, but I didn't believe it at all. I don't know if it was Jodie Foster or the unsatisfying conclusion, but I never connected with it at all.

2.5/4  Contact Quick Review
I can't over look the ending and some of the other concepts of this film. It starts of well, but the falls off and becomes unbelievable - just like the movie and Jodi Foster's character. I would stay away unless you LOVE foster and sci fi.

3.5/4  Contact Quick Review
I fell in love with this movie from the beginning. It is one of those films that really gets you thinking about the "what ifs" The acting of Jodie Foster and William Fichtner is great, one of her best roles.

4/5 great movie
  by William L. Wensel (indiana)
I LOVE THIS MOVIE,I THINK ITS ONE OF THE BEST SI-FI MOVIES EVER MADE,I HAVE THE DVD,BUT WHEN IT CAME OUT ON BLU RAY I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT!!!!

4/5 Excellent Blu Ray transfer
  by A B
Excellent high definition transfer- major upgrade over the standard definition DVD.

Recommended.



4/5 Secret messages
  by Wayne Klein (My Little Blue Window, USA)
An exceptional looking Blu-ray, "Contact" tells the story of Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster)and the impact that her discovery of a message from an alien race impacts society. In essence "Contact" acts as both a literal title and a pun--the film is about contact between science and faith, between a woman who loses her family at a young age trying to reconnect in some little way with what's she lost and her unending faith that she will discover there IS life out there.

Working with authors Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan director Robert Zemeckis has refashioned the tale adding the character of David Drumlin (Tom Skerrit)as an adversary who dogs Ellie every step of the way pushing her further and further away from her opportunity to embrace her discovery. Featuring a terrific supporting cast "Contact" focuses more on the humanity rather than the hardware but deals with a number of complex themes in the process. Rather than focusing on a team that goes to meet the Vegans Zemeckis and screenwriters James V. Hart & Michael Goldberg elect to make one person go throwing the finale into question--again, it comes down to a matter of faith and Ellie believes.

The Blu-ray has all of the original extras that were on the 1997 DVD. While the transfer looks extremely good with nice detail, color and clarity. It appears to be digitally scrubbed though with a bit too much digital noise reduction used reducing the level of the detail in the process. Nevertheless, it does blow away the original DVD by leaps and bounds particularly the opening sequence as we look at the Earth following the radio waves as they leave our planet moving further and further away from our solar system.

"Contact" is a very good if flawed film. The faith vs. science themes that were so prevelent in Sagan's book are still here but presented in a bit of a muddled fashion. There's zero chemistry on screen between Foster and McConaughey. David Morse brings a strong, quiet presence to his role as Ellie's father. The ending although it is touching and does provide a sense of closure (and while it does make sense in many respects) may feel like a cheat to some. I thought it worked quite well within the context of the film. Some of the story elements like the subplot involving a terrorist attack on the "Machine" and NASA are deftly handled--they could have been blown up (pardon the pun)into soap opera spectacle but Zemeckis plays it low-key. The other flaw is the time compression from discovery to execution; while it was essential to keeping the film moving forward it also makes everything seem as it it happens rather quickly.

Over all this is a exceptionally good looking Blu-ray and the fact that Warner has ported over all the DVD extras (something that many studios have chosen not to do)is a big plus as well. Highly recommended.

5/5 The best BluRay movie experience
  by Said
I have been a fan of this movie for a long time.....it's the best. Now I got it on BluRay - I was blown out - great job in convertining Contact to hi-deffinicion standard! Great Job! Highly recomend!

5/5 Contact [VHS]
  by Michael Johnson (Chicago, IL)
Was a great DVD in fullscreen which is very hard to get on DVD and it arrived on time in great shape. Would buy from seller again.