I had a good laugh watching Capricorn One. The general idea is good: A movie about the biggest scam of them all - a fake Mars journey. But the movie is so amateurish made that it hurts. Even the cutting is poorly done - the movie simply falls apart.
The first 15 minutes rocks. A genuine no-nonsense rocket launch, NASA style, using actual footage. Very promising. And from then on it disintegrates.
The dialogue changes from long (long long), boring monologues to stupid, slap stick dialogue, using every cliche in the book.
The plot itself could have been good, the general idea is interesting, but the story line has gaping holes. What about this: You perform the greatest scam of mankind - only three men know the truth. Do you guard them? No - you lock them up in a room and go away. And so of course they escape - simply by removing the door from it's frame .... please.
The life support systems turn up to be defective... 3 weeks before launch!? Oh come on!
The choppers send out to find the astronauts fly together instead of splitting up. There is no soldiers or anti terrorist guys in the choppers - the pilots themselves run out wearing flight helmets and a hand gun, trying to shoot the fugitives :-)
Notice the center screen in the control room - even when the space ship has reached Mars it's still showing an Earth orbit...
And so on... one blunder after the other.
The timing is strange too - small, non-important scenes seem to take forever (e.g. the "I'm telling a joke while I climb a mountain scene".) While important parts of the story disappear in a blur. For how long are the astronauts walking in the desert? 2 hours? 2 days? Hard to tell.
Other reviewers tend to say that I'm not a true sci-fi fan because I tend to rate sci-fi movies badly. Believe you me: I'm a huge sci-fi fan. I've seen most of it, and I have read most of it. That's why I get so disappointed when it's poorly done. And, let's face it, there is lot of bad sci-fi out there.
So... watch this, by all means. It's a laugh - not just because it's bad sci-fi, but because it's a bad movie, breaking every rule in the book. This should have been a B TV-show, not a movie.
Bad writing, bad directing, bad bad effects and, oh my god: Bad bad acting!
1/10.
The first 15 minutes rocks. A genuine no-nonsense rocket launch, NASA style, using actual footage. Very promising. And from then on it disintegrates.
The dialogue changes from long (long long), boring monologues to stupid, slap stick dialogue, using every cliche in the book.
The plot itself could have been good, the general idea is interesting, but the story line has gaping holes. What about this: You perform the greatest scam of mankind - only three men know the truth. Do you guard them? No - you lock them up in a room and go away. And so of course they escape - simply by removing the door from it's frame .... please.
The life support systems turn up to be defective... 3 weeks before launch!? Oh come on!
- "Yes, now we are ready to go to Mars, we only need the life support system"
- "Oh that? It will be ready 3 weeks before launch - then we test it" ...
The choppers send out to find the astronauts fly together instead of splitting up. There is no soldiers or anti terrorist guys in the choppers - the pilots themselves run out wearing flight helmets and a hand gun, trying to shoot the fugitives :-)
Notice the center screen in the control room - even when the space ship has reached Mars it's still showing an Earth orbit...
And so on... one blunder after the other.
The timing is strange too - small, non-important scenes seem to take forever (e.g. the "I'm telling a joke while I climb a mountain scene".) While important parts of the story disappear in a blur. For how long are the astronauts walking in the desert? 2 hours? 2 days? Hard to tell.
Other reviewers tend to say that I'm not a true sci-fi fan because I tend to rate sci-fi movies badly. Believe you me: I'm a huge sci-fi fan. I've seen most of it, and I have read most of it. That's why I get so disappointed when it's poorly done. And, let's face it, there is lot of bad sci-fi out there.
So... watch this, by all means. It's a laugh - not just because it's bad sci-fi, but because it's a bad movie, breaking every rule in the book. This should have been a B TV-show, not a movie.
Bad writing, bad directing, bad bad effects and, oh my god: Bad bad acting!
1/10.