Have the "allure" of assassination as in The Parallax View, a film which preceded Capricorn One by a few years but which This is a rather dubious contrivance, and one which tends to offer a relatively shakyįoundation for all that soon follows, but perhaps surprisingly, given an adequate suspension of disbelief, Capricorn One manages toĭeliver a decently fun excursion into a paranoid fantasy of secretive governmental operatives and the (always) black hearts of men. Jeopardized if the mission doesn't go off as planned. When some malfeasance is uncovered, instead of simply scrubbing the mission, NASAīigwig James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) decides instead on subterfuge, supposedly fearing that the future of the space program will be Charles Brubaker (James Brolin) andĬommander John Walker (O.J. In this particular case, there actually is a planned mission to Mars which indeed is inįinal stages of countdown, supposedly about to launch Lt. Perplexing lack of logic and/or common sense. One plays solidly to those who are tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists, positing a shady and corrupt government out toīamboozle a gullible citizenry into believing that a manned mission to the red planet is actually taking place, when instead an elaborate hoax isĬapricorn One is one of those films that depends on an escalating series of improbable events, all of which are only possible due to a The target of the launch might be a tad more ambitious-Mars instead of the moon-but otherwise Capricorn And so for aĬertain segment of the population the rather outlandish premise of 1978's Capricorn One probably played less like a thriller than aĭramatized documentary. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin frolicking in lesser gravity was created, though the obvious implication was that it was all staged. My grandmother never really revealed how she thought the footage of Outer space and then, later, two of them onto the lunar surface. Her lifetime but still for whatever reason wasn't able to quite wrap her mind around Man having the wherewithal to shoot three men first into Intelligent but relatively uneducated (or perhaps undereducated) woman who had witnessed all sorts of technological miracles during Now Grandma wasn't a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, she was simply a fairly To believe we had actually landed on the moon. Though I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, my very own dear departed maternal grandmother was one of those people who resolutely refused Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, January 1, 2015
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