For the most part, Contact is another winner from Robert Zemeckis, a thought-provoking science-fiction film about the possibility of other life in the universe, and the journey getting there is constantly suspenseful. However, like so many of these films, it all falls to pieces when the time comes to actually reveal something, and we realise that Zemeckis doesn't really have anything interesting to show off at all. Instead, when Ellie (Jodie Foster) ends up travelling to Vega, the aliens appear to her in the form of her dead father, yet this encounter only ends up causing the audience to ask more questions while the film essentially answers nothing. Ellie is sent back through the wormhole and we're all deprived of an insightful, smart or even just downright cool ending; instead, it's just confusing and irritating. Sometimes ambiguity works, and sometimes it's just a cheap way to not end your movie.