I tend to be fairly oblivious to plot holes but I sense a ton of them in this movie. One example, unrealistic "resume breadth" - people taking on an unrealistic assortment of jobs such as the same person in an executive position at one point and working as a technician at another. That being said, the story was intriguing and the acting was good. I think the imdb rating of 7.4 is right on, but found it up to 8 because it's hard not to fall for this movies charm.
Contact
1997
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Contact
1997
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Synopsis
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway (David Morse), who died when she was nine-years-old, leaving her orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (N.S.F.) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her N.S.F. superior David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders, and other scientists, such as Drumlin, try to take over her work. When the messages received ...
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A dead on 7.5
The best movie in the buisness!!! 10/10
I'm gonna be short ....this is my first review about movie, Ever.... and i've watched thousands. Since i saw this movie back in 1998 it keeps growing and growing ...its one of the very best out there in the sci-fi business for a lot of reasons and it deserve spot in top 250 movies of all time ! ( tho for me it is in top 50 movies i've seen. Acting, screenplay, dialogues, idea..and so on!!
Just awesome.
People that talk about "dumb religiosity" in this movie really miss the point. It is not religious in the slightest, rather it includes a sweeping panorama of the tension between science and religion, whilst skewing the horrendous evil of human greed and the truth of how we're all charged with coping with our seeming separateness. It's a beautiful work of art, one of my top three movies ever. Spine-tingling line of the movie - John Hurt to Jodie Foster; "wanna take a ride?"