Ted Berner

The Black Hole is indeed worthy of watching and considered a cult flick, but as compared to other science fiction films, whether Star Wars, Star Trek, 2001, 20,000 Leagues, Blade Runner, Silent Running or even Dune, it fell short. The film had a decent budget for the time, and some aspects made that evident but the special effects and editing just couldn't keep up with the ambitious scope of the storyline. Also some technical aspects were really poorly handled in writing which carried straight through to the big screen. Nevertheless despite these traits, there's something about it still worth watching.

This film has more dead ends than a hair salon in the desert. The storyline is chock full of branches with no leaves leading to other branches with no leaves. I watched patiently, waiting to make associations, connections, some form of cognizant order which instead continued to sink into oblivion. This film is over everyone's head.

Somebody made a movie about first contact that didn't have the always-expected alien facetime, that instead dealt with default disbelief, "geek"-related character development, touched on a couple technical subjects and for excitement, a crazy effort to preserve the discovery and everybody gets bent out of shape. I was expecting the more usual kind of first contact movie, yet wasn't disappointed. Frankly I'm surprised it was as watchable as it was. I give it a weak four stars.