Space Cowboys
Directed by Clint Eastwood.
Starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones (or Yummy
Lee Jones as I like to call him ), James Garner, Donald
Sutherland.
Space Cowboys is a great excuse to get four excellent ‘older’ actors together. Sure it’s a light comedy, but it’s kinda’ fun! If you’ve seen a preview you have got a pretty good idea of the film (great to see a film that lives up to its preview, isn’t it?).
Dr. Francis ‘Frank’ Corvin (Eastwood) was head of team Daedalus, the air force project training the first men to go into space. Before it was completed, the space programme was handed to NASA and a chimp went into space instead. Forty years later this still hurts, and when Frank is contacted by NASA to help them rescue a crippled Russian satellite, he cuts a deal for the original Daedalus team to go into space. Then follows an amusing Blues Brothers-type set of scenes where Frank gets the old boys back together, and we get to see how cool and feisty they are. The men go through their training at NASA and then shoot off into space. The film falters during the training sequences, but the final space segment is quite exciting.
The IMDb have pages and pages of technical errors to do with the space scenes. If you’re a bit of a space buff, this film may frustrate you. I would also have liked to see such fine actors extending themselves a bit. However, this is a fun light comedy.
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