Not that bad...

Rating: 2/10 (19 January 2001)

...until lift-off.
I was warned that this movie would be very bad by some friends, whose judgement I usually trust.
I saw it anyway.
At first I thought they were wrong, an entertaining start with impressive F/X, the introduction of the characters good with Bruce Willis and Steve Buscemi great as usual, dito the training scenes.
I told myself: "Hey, a little dumb but not bad, why did they pick on it so hard?"
At that point the movie went downhill RAPIDLY. Everything concerned with science and engineering was an insult to everyone able to bind his shoe-laces (considering the cost of every gram launched into space, why would anyone put a cannon on the vehicles? Just in case you have to shoot yourself out of a crashed shuttle?). The pathos combined with that completely unnecessary romance made my stomach turn. At the end I didn't know whether to laugh, to be annoyed at the insult or to cry over the money lost in an attempt at being entertained.
I hereby solemnly swear, never to question my friends' judgement again.
2/10