Having the exact wrong name to be released right before the same named Christopher Nolan blockbuster, this is the story of the early days of the NASA space program told from Jim Lovell's point of view told entirely via archival footage. It takes us up to and through the Apollo 13 disaster.
This is a perfectly okay film. There is a not a great deal we haven't seen before (hold that thought), but its still a nice overview of the early days of space flight. The film is blast of nostalgia for those who love the space program.
While the film is perfectly fine for what it is, the film lost me with the disaster of Apollo 1. The film uses footage of the disaster including the imploding capsule door, the screams of the astronauts as they are burning up alive and the footage of their charred bodies laid out. I'm not sure why they decided to make a turn into the graphic. I'm a space kid from the 60's and I've not seen run across images of the bodies before nor the use of the material from the accident without a context. There was no reason to do so, more so since a couple of the writers at the P&I screening didn't quite grasp what they were seeing.
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