good technical details, but the soul is missing...

Rating: Null/10 (11 October 1999)

There was an epoch that started in the Cuban missile crisis, or maybe it was the Kennedy assassination; it ended in Watergate, or maybe it was in Apollo 13. It was the age of Rock'n'Roll and Viet Nam, Monterey and Da Nang... Anyway, the 60s were interesting times. I'm an electronics engineer that works in spacecraft control systems. The film was very good from the technical standpoint, no big blunders, just some slight exaggerations, to maintain the suspense. But I was a kid when it happened and I remember those times, I think the general attitude is missing. Modern kids, who listen to Alanis Morrissette, may not understand this, but people had some strange dreams in those psychedelic years. By the early 70s everybody knew the dream had ended, we would not colonize the Moon in this century, environmental pollution was (and still is) a lethal danger, global nuclear war was imminent, you get the idea. Depending on your point of view, you were afraid that either communism or capitalism would take over the world (my uncle died with a piece of shrapnel through his heart while fighting the communists in eastern Europe, so you know what was MY fear). "Apollo 13", the film, was well made, both from the technical and the artistic point of view, but it missed the chance to capture the spirit of the final days of an age when drama was lived in real time.