A nice surprise and a natural born classic

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2014)

A simple plot about self-discovery developed on a tight script and surprisingly good direction. A love story without romantic kisses. An adventure without gunshots. A comedy without jokes. And what is, for me, already one of those magic scenes of movie history, to be sitting side by side with other anthological sequences like the death of Don Corleone in the first "Godfather" or the discovery of the monolith by the proto-humans in "2001: A Space Odissey": the take-off of the helicopter, the moment of epiphany of the main character (if you haven't seen the movie yet, you you'll know of what scene I am talking about when you see it). Because of "Tropic Thunder", I have to confess I underestimated the director. But this time, Ben Stiller has "really made the grade": a correct performance as an actor and an outstanding job as director. Just to the record: the Bowie song real name is "Space Oddity", not "Major Tom".