Flawed, highly flawed, but entertaining...

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2019)

Once you notice something amiss in a movie, you can't unsee it. The stretches and revisionisms in this film aside, how in heck do you make a film about a bunch of NASA engineers and number crunchers in the early sixties and not one, I repeat, not one single cigarette in sight in the entire film. Nada, not even one. WT actual F? Others here have pointed out the historical inaccuracies and the implausible scenarios, but haven't we come to expect all of that from Hollywood? This film is otherwise well directed, excellently acted and photographed beautifully, but I fail to understand how the director could have decided to be so PC as to have zero smokers in this time period.