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The story is interesting, but there are a number of problems. I don't have any idea why this movie jumps back and forth in the timeline; it doesn't help the plot at all. Anyway, there is a bigger problem -- the dubbing in English. It isn't a problem with matching lip movements, it's a problem with the some of the voice actors, especially the old lady. Her voice is almost comical. Her inflections are so bad that I'd bet a theatre audience would break out laughing. The other problem is the dubbing sound. When you dub a voice for an actor who is outside, you'd expect the voice to sound like it's outside, not like the voice was recorded in a studio. All the voices sound that way; close mic'd in an anechoic chamber. It was bad enough that I was tempted to switch to the Austrian language track and turn on English subtitles, the only problem was, English subtitles were not available.

There are two main problems with this movie: editing, and the director's attempt to use bickering engineers as the primary source of drama. In the beginning of the movie, the film cuts back and forth between two sets of lawyers that occurs long after the disaster. This is a bit confusing; unnecessarily so. Then we move to an argument of engineers at Morton Thiokol -- pre-disaster. There isn't any good reason for not relating this story chronologically or at least not flipping around indiscriminately. Secondly, the true story has plenty of drama without trying to artificially create drama by having the engineers engaging in an angry, disrespectful argument, which was apparently grossly exaggerated from what really happened.

The first season of The Outer Limits had the best opening titles of any program on TV. It would be interesting to know why the producers changed their musical producer in season 2 from Dominic Frontiere to Harry Lubin, who used the same music he had used for One Step Beyond. It was not an improvement.

The stories were generally very good, with the chief weakness being the frequent use of actors in monster costumes and special effects that are mediocre by today's standards, but then I imagine the producers were constrained by the show's budget.

Watching the series today reveals so many actors who went on to become household names in their own TV series, such as David McCallum, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, etc.

The Outer Limits ranks up there with other great science fiction series such as Twilight Zone and even Star Trek.