In Robert Ebert's review of this film, he says ' The film did not provide the clear narrative and easy entertainment cues the audience expected. The closing sequences, with the astronaut inexplicably finding himself in a bedroom somewhere beyond Jupiter, were baffling. The overnight Hollywood judgment was that Kubrick had become derailed, that in his obsession with effects and set pieces, he had failed to make a movie.' [Ebert 1997] The narrative flow within this film was almost non existent. From an audience perspective, it felt as if it was several different stories that had been stitched together. Kubrick was considered a great innovator in the film world, pushing the boundaries of what film could look like and how it can be made. However there is a point at which you are not making a commercially viable film anymore, and instead you are making something akin to a modern art piece. While this is the case, ' snippets of its minimalist dialogue ("Open the pod