Great work of fiction, loosely based on some real (but mostly made-up) people.

Rating: 6/10 (30 April 2017)

The movie was okay, so long as you don't allow it to shape any opinions or world views. A quick fact check will betray this film as the outright "social justice warrior" propaganda piece that it is. Once again, Hollywood is tripping over itself to virtue signal their outrageous political correctness. I mean, every time you turn around,it's Selma, Suffragettes, and now this. White people are awful, stupid,and are all artificially in their high positions because of their race; we get it Hollywood. Gag! Remember in "Ray", where Ray Charles was banned from Georgia? That never happened in real life, either. It was yet another jab at whitey, to make them look like evil incarnate.
Hardly anyone ever heard of this lady who this movie alleges single- handedly rescued the space program from the silly white people who ran NASA in the 60s. Her real role was negligible, and she was really part of a large team; not a lone, brilliant savior this movie makes her out to be. Nobody retelling the story (including "We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program") of the early days of NASA mentions Katherine Johnson at all. And if you look at pictures of Katherine Johnson, she's about the whitest "black" woman you've ever seen. She just suddenly appears; the subject of this amazing story nobody else seems to remember and is thrust into the limelight by Obama and Hollywood (and the book, but who reads?).
Katherine Johnson herself has said in interviews she never felt any racism in NASA, as it was totally merit-based. There were bathrooms in the east buildings and the whole running a half a mile thing was totally made up for effect. How convenient for the writers that John Glenn is dead, so nobody can corroborate or refute the claim that he wanted "the smart girl" to double-check the computer's calculations. Everyone who knows anything about history, knows early NASA was nearly all German Jew World War 2 refugees and ex-Nazi rocket scientists.
Jack Crenshaw - one of the actual early NASA geniuses, says on his website, "Now back to the movie. From what I can gather, it's a very different story, and absolutely _DOES_ seem to claim that these three women saved the space program. It also, I'm told, portrays all the white guys as incompetent nincompoops.
THAT, I can tell you, is absolutely false. The NASA engineers of that era were the most hard-working and competent engineers I've met anywhere, at any time. And I've met a bunch.
Someone else here pointed out that the black actors in the movie are portraying real people, while the 'white guys' are all 'composite figures' with fictitious names. There's a reason for that: the real white guys refused to let themselves be portrayed the way the producers wanted to. That should tell you what's going on."
So, aside from the fact that this is an extremely racially-repulsive propaganda film from the uber anti-white extremists who have taken over Hollywood, it's a decent movie. I was already enamored with Janelle, from her musical career and now I'm completely in love with her. The movie is also, at times, quite funny. If you can get past all white people being portrayed as bumbling bigots and having to be rescued by black heroines, maybe you'll be entertained.