Technical and human

Rating: 7/10 (15 January 2008)

This unequalled and unsurpassable adventure of three courageous men in a spatial capsule is well told whether in the technical or the human aspect. There is no detail that you can say it's out of its place in what concerns feelings or handling of all the equipments involved. It's a movie that seizes us from the beginning till the end because we feel in the skins of those men and their families that witness powerlessly down here to their drama. We can in fact discuss whether the conquest of a dead planet like the moon is worth the risk run. But that's another aspect of the question which exceeds the aim of this movie and there no room here to deal with it. Here we are in presence of the story of a human 20th century epic which is what interests and suffices us in what concerns this movie. Space is the last frontier of Man. His destiny is to search it. This movie is well directed, presented and performed.It has some wonderful and original images considering the epoch in which it was made (1995). Its last third is particularly full of real and intense suspense.