When his space shuttle flight has an accident, an astronaut remembers the lessons his father taught him growing up.When his space shuttle flight has an accident, an astronaut remembers the lessons his father taught him growing up.When his space shuttle flight has an accident, an astronaut remembers the lessons his father taught him growing up.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 10 nominations total
Sun Xilun
- Ma Fei (Youth son)
- (as Xilun Sun)
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This movie had great relationship themes between a father and son
The extremes of the child being young and beholden to his talented father to becoming a mission saving hero and the father being a talented but flawed engineer trying to recover was excellent
Sure there were probably some big flaws and stereotypes but it was a story of love and devotion and growing up and giving hope.
The scene of Chinese nationalism, portraying the different parts of the country as one, were grating but lasted for a couple of minutes, certainly not enough to spoil the tale being told
Loved it
The movie confuses me. It is alternating between reality and fairy tale throughout, without convincing me with either. I agree with the other reviewers, the father character, with all good intentions both from the film maker and in the story, is not real, at all, almost felt as if he had multiple personality. He promised things clearly impossible, which was the tale; while his story with the jail and all, was reality. I am not saying this cannot work, but the film did not pull it off. The son character was rather bland, yet making strange moves that did not fit the character. The story is weak with non-impressive acting.
The title of the film "brainwashing dad" may be more appropriate. As Ren Suxi said in the film, Ma Haowen exudes a temperament of brainwashing organization from beginning to end. This is not about Deng Chao's performance, but the problems that arise in the script and character design stage. He taught his son that he could do everything on earth and live up to his expectations. His son became the successor of "space wolf" Liu Peiqiang, but he almost selfishly sacrificed his father's wish for his dream. Is this education really successful? Maybe the screenwriter himself has no answer, so he can only rely on "being a father for the first time in this life" in "please answer 1988" to force a happy ending. Deng Chao and Yu Baimei held their breath this time and wanted to be ashamed before the snow, so they piled up countless emotional points and themes, combined with the embarrassing nostalgic Golden Melody string burning, and finally presented a hodgepodge. Director Yan is the best in the audience. Unfortunately, this character is too Facebook, and Deng Chao is too hard. It's not easy to copy Xu Zheng's success and win the movie emperor. We can see that Deng Yu and Yu have corrected their creative attitude. No way to black is the premise of making a good film.
It was a bit disjointed and the story went from here to there without much in the way of explanation. Out of all the Chinese films I have watched, this is probably my least favourite.
It isn't a bad film and I wouldn't not recommend giving this a go, it isn't my cup of tea - you might just like thisn and relate to it but I think 5/10 is a reasonable mark for me.
It isn't a bad film and I wouldn't not recommend giving this a go, it isn't my cup of tea - you might just like thisn and relate to it but I think 5/10 is a reasonable mark for me.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $84,267
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,541
- Jul 21, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $122,994,583
- Runtime
- 2h 27m(147 min)
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- 2.39 : 1
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