After the movie, as the credits were rolling I turned to my wife and said that's the best movie I ever saw. Since then I've retracted a bit, but that's the impact the movie had on me. It is simply movie making at its best. I particularly like movies that maximize the potential of the medium. Movies like Hook and Brazil and the first Star Wars come to mind. This is one of those movies. The imagination that created the life in that film is astounding. The plot is enough to sustain interest for the two plus hours but its the idea of the thing that captured me. Plus the not so subtle message about greeed decimating the planet had resonance as well.