Review of The Right Stuff (1983) by Mikhail B — 01 Jul 2012
A film about the most exiting thing on Earth, namely, space travels, shot remarkably dull. Former test pilots enlist to the brand new American space program in 1950-s; the program doesn't perform well, mainly because of incompetent engineers, and it is the Soviets who become first to launch a manned sputnik to the space.
The pilots tired of engineers' incompetence, insist on having a flight, and, finally, get even with the Russian. That would be a good ending to the film but despite the fact that the film is already 2-hour-long, the scriptwriter seems to be enable to stop.
He continues the saga with another pilot who wrecked the satellite capsule, yet another one who returns back to testing fighters, and breaks the world speed record together with his plane, the same pilot who nearly escapes death after the satellite's return capsule malfunctions, and tells a lot of other irrelevant stuff without a meaningful story, until the length of the film exceeds 3 hours.
Winding up, this helpless and inconsistent soap-opera stuff is totally wrong. Those, who want to find out something about the beginning of the American space program, should probably watch the British documentary called In the Shadow of the Moon (2007).
Sorry, dear 5-star critics, in my view, it's total failure.
This review of The Right Stuff (1983) was written by Mikhail B on 01 Jul 2012.
The Right Stuff has generally received very positive reviews.
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