Simpson, who gets to drink from a dead snake, tells you just what era this film harkens from.ĭirector Peter Hyams, a hack himself who veers between the outright crap and expertly handled B-movies like this, plays around with some loopy helicopter shots in search of a resonant style. That they are played by James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O.J. The second half is pure chase movie, a race against time as the trio of heroic spaceman escape their desert prison and are gradually hunted down. As he pieces together the factual anomalies, tipped off by his soon-to-die insider buddy Robert Walden, and dodges various attempts on his life (the most immediate form of verification) the film spins into life. It is he, one of the seventies great unrecognised joys, who gives the film its ironic fizz, as if it is almost parodying the seriousness of the eras moody suspicions. Get over that and it’s a whole lot of fun watching Hal Halbrook’s - who played supergrass Deep Throat in All The President’s Men - wicked scheming unravel thanks to the gutsy work of Elliot Gould’s tatty hack. Shadowy political trickery is one thing, fabricating an entire NASA mission is near impossible to credit. Certainly, you have to forgive the whacking great lumps of far-fetchedness. Do you really believe that a a band with limited money and resources at the time acomplished that? I don't buy as many people with knowledge on the matter don't buy it.An excellent, if forgotten, late seventies conspiracy thriller which takes the existent fable of the faked moon landing and runs with it. The Prime Minister was killed and his car ended up on the roof of a 4 stories conventry, in the middle of crowed street in Madrid, at around 200 meters of a military post were surveilance was heavy. In the mid of Madrid they dig a 200 meters tunnel, planted explosive charges under it andalso at the sides of the street were the Prime Minister passed everyday, all in daylight with fake workers that ETA planted on plain eyesight for two days where everybody could see them. One of the last Prime Ministers back in 1973 was assasined by ETA, the Basque separatist terrorist band. I'm giving you an example from my home country: during Franco's dictatorship there was a Prime Minister but not elected democraticly. In all fairness: I did like Timecop quite a bit, and I not only think it's Hyams' best film, I think it's also Jean-Claude Van Damme's best film.Ĭlick to expand.I'm not talking about the Apollo or Saturn missions, nothing to do with space missions, just staff, as I said before, that maybe half truths that went public and people bought, or just well hidden secrets that have never went public and will never be. I get that science fiction has to diverge from reality to tell stories, but I think there's a point where your suspension of disbelief can only go so far. I've disliked a lot of Peter Hyams' films (like this one and 2010), because he goes south with a lot of lapses in logic. I'm all for healthy skepticism, but not this. Anything that makes people question real events - particularly leading them to even start screaming "fake news" at legitimate, established news organizations - makes me wince. I've also been thoroughly convinced that you couldn't contain a conspiracy of this size for very long, because somebody would talk. I hated the film only because 1) it promoted the idea that a manned space landing could be faked in the 1970s, and 2) the video "trickery" shown in the film wasn't possible, because at the time a slo-mo machine could only hold 30 seconds of material.
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