Like being there

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2009)

For the couch potato no movie comes as close to the real thing as this one. It is the most believable space movie ever - with real zero G! The actors all do a terrific job - no one is coasting as you so often see with the 'A-list' actors these days.
It captures the sheer complexity of the missions, the enormous back-room staff, and shows what you could do with technology before the micro chip was invented! The sets are loving recreations of mission control - or maybe the used the real one, I wouldn't be surprised.
The Apollo program had grandeur and daring like the early square-rigged ships, or the first Antarctic explorers, or Hillary on Everest. And the movie manages to portray that with some emotion, but not over the top sentimentality. The men involved were heroes no doubt about it. But the tech's on the ground working for solutions where also magnificent.
It's not like seeing a movie, I feel like I was there. I feel like I was a part of it somehow - disbelieve was totally suspended for two hours. It's everything I love in a movie!