Capsule

Bowie's Major Tom whining "Here I am, sitting in a tin can" is more realistic.

Any test pilot/early astronaut would be earnestly working with mission control to remedy his crisis. Instead, here we have a constant coward, sniveling, "Just get me down!" and banging on his "dashboard."

Have the writers seen The Right Stuff or Apollo 13?

Shameful.

This film is an excellent example of a great idea very poorly executed. The story is actually good but the actual story-telling is poor. First off the Brit in the capsule, Guy Taylor, was far from stoic or calm. The "former fighter pilot" was too emotional and lacked all the qualities you'd expect in someone picked to be "the first man in space". I don't know if this was due to bad directing, bad acting or both, but as Arnie would say, he was a "girlie-man". Secondly, the first half of the film is painfully slow and I found myself drifting away and losing interest. Despite all this I was pleasantly surprised by how it ended, but it was too late by then. If you want to see a fine example of a movie with just one actor well executed have a look at Tom Hardy in "Locke". In fact I think that Hardy would have made a much better Guy Taylor.

I would have enjoyed this a lot more if it was not for the pilot being a bag of nerves, always panicking, losing his cool and nothing at all like someone who had an outstanding career in the air force and been selected to be the first pilot of the British space programme. It was just ridiculous, and because of this I never felt anything for him because he just annoyed me so much.

Fortunately I forced myself to put up with up with all that and eventually the story started to improve in the last 40 minutes. I liked the ending and there are twists in the ending which were unexpected.

It's worth a watch but try and put up with the slow burning start and the awful unrealistic reactions of the pilot and you'll see an enjoyable story unravel - eventually.

Bad movie, bad acting and it's sci-fi at it's worst. The astronaut acting is not convincing at all, very amateur and unprofessional.

Nothing is logical in this movie. It starts off with a guy waking up in a little probe. I wont say anything more about it then the fact that this guy is a Astronaout sent to space by Britain and gets lost. One would assume some genius and some logic in how they take care of this right? Britain, Astronaout, Russians (helps out abit) but somehow the conversation in this movie is like 3 20 year old talking over the phone when one is lost and the other two is trying to describe the directions without a GPS present. You wouldn't guess its a Astronaout talking to the space center of one of the most sophisticated techonological countries of the time. He doesn't even know how to change two circuits and gets stressed over everything. Don't they get years of training on how to handle this stuff, stress and technological problems? They've tried out something like Gravity but failed miserably because even though the guy can act the storytelling is amazingly bad.