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| Year: | 1978 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Peter Hyams |
| Genre: | Conspiracy thriller |
| Starring: | Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/ |
| Tagline: | The mission was a sham. The murders were real. |
| Favourite line: | "Anybody hungry? Oh, the marvels of American science. Here we are millions of miles from earth, and we can still send out for pizza." |
The NASA space program is taking a battering in terms of popularity both with the US government, and the public.
Successive mission failures means that the amount of money spent on the program seems wildly exorbitant, and NASA have one last ditch effort to rekindle interest: A manned mission to Mars. Problem is, they can't risk another failure as that would represent an insurmountable problem with continuing their future missions. As a result, a few top bods within NASA devise a plan to fake the Mars landing, filming it instead on a sound stage, and making the astronauts disappear afterwards, as if ever the truth got out, the scandal would destroy the organisation.
A compelling premise, this suffers from being crushingly slow. Too many long, drawn out chase sequences, and overly lengthy dialogue that adds nothing to the movie.
This should have been great, as it is it is merely adequate.
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