Reviews

The basic private pilot certificate is for "Aiplane/Single-engine/Land". Pre-solo training is normally done in a single engine fixed gear aircraft with a fixed pitch prop.

It's not matter of cheap, it's a matter of simplicity and ease of control. A small (relatively less expensive) aircraft fits these needs very well. A student pilot has more than enough on his/her mind without having to worry about manifold pressure, prop settings and gear handling that come with a complex aircraft.

Our hero may be aware of some of the flight characteristics of a 747 because of personal knowledge, but it didn't come from his pre-solo training.

Yes, Peck had a hard time with holding a British accent, Costner's Robin Hood didn't even try.

Yes, there were a bunch of older actors in it, it's about older characters.

No, it doesn't have an explosion a minute or a bunch of hard bodied guys or gorgeous babes, that's not what this movie is about and it doesn't need them.

It's about a bunch of geezer who, despite being a bit over the hill, still have some sense of adventure and a bit of fight left in them.

When viewed from that perspective this movie does the job very well.

It doesn't need the repeated and obviously fake explosions and computer generated torn body parts that seems to be the requisite for contemporary adventure films. It's a relatively subdued spinning of a yarn based (loosely, I suppose) on a true story.

It's heartwarming to watch the bunch of old soldiers (admitedly, not too much older than myself) pull it together one more time.

On one of those cold, bleak winter afternoons when you're feeling that you might have missed out on a few of life's adventures, watch this movie and let yourself think, maybe, just maybe there's still a chance to live them.

Wonderful corn

When good guys were good and bad guys were bad and there was never any doubt as to which was which.

Imagine yourself as a kid in a time when we didn't know a great deal about space travel and were willing to suspend what little we did know for the sake of adventure.

Forgive the costumes and sets that appear to be left overs from old war movies and Robin Hood films. Allow yourself to believe that there are clouds in space, rocket ships that sort of float about sounding like vacuum cleaners and ray guns that discharge lighting bolts that look like they are scratched into the film.

In short, quit being a grownup for an hour or two and enjoy this grandfather of "Star Wars"