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A scientist (James Caan) replaces a military officer (Robert Duvall) as an astronaut on a space-race moonshot.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The film seems oddly unfocused, and the first hour is given over to barren stretches of flat, everyday dialog.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 6, 2018

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Realistic but not very involving astronaut melodrama from Robert Altman.

Rated: C

Nov 29, 2022

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Filmmaker Robert Altman, working from Loring Mandel's screenplay, delivers an exceedingly (and often excessively) deliberate drama...

Rated: 2/4

Apr 2, 2020

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

An involving sci-fi thriller concerned with the space race to the moon by rival superpowers, Russia and USA.

Rated: B+

Sep 13, 2012

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Blocky men test themselves in perilous missions, but modernist tension cracks the mold of classicism

Nov 17, 2009

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 3/5

Jul 4, 2005

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Aldo G

The budget was too measly to provide appropriate special effects (there are not images of the space capsule in space). The lack of tension in a movie about an astronaut in danger crash lands this one.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/07/24

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Russ

One of two films [of which I know] pairing Robert Duval and James Caan prior to The Godfather, but it's strictly Movie of the Week quality. Also features Ted Knight [Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack] as a NASA PR flak. Caan isn't at all convincing as an astronaut. This runs 102 minutes but I jumped past the hokey melodrama in the first hour to see how it ended.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/05/23

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j f

Worst ending ever…..

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/18/23

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Audience Member

Like going to the dentist, very poor acting as astronauts, never heard one transmission that showed panic, wearing the space suit the entire flight not realistic, no buzz in this film what so ever.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

While not a great film, this is a near miss - especially for those that appreciate what the arms race really meant to the patriotic public. This film's ending might have been better if it had ended a few minutes later into the story. Open ended storylines are always assumed to be a positive outcome for the hero - but was it really?

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

A slightly better than average Cold War Space Race movie. All of the actors give credible performances and the technology used was mostly things that NASA may have been able to do at the time. After some historical research, it seems that NASA did do some early research into a mission profile similar to the one that the movie uses in the story, although with 2 men, not one.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Synopsis

A scientist (James Caan) replaces a military officer (Robert Duvall) as an astronaut on a space-race moonshot.

Director: Robert Altman
Production Co: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 22, 2009
Runtime: 1h 41m

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