Reviews

Douglas G. Griffin (The Colonel) is an American actor and makes no attempt to pretend to be English in this film. He's utterly unconvincing as a British Colonel. What were they thinking?

False eyes that are manually popped in and out of eye sockets do not swivel left and right with the good eye. They stare fixedly straight ahead. And this must be the most obnoxious bunch of teenagers ever depicted on TV. Are Israeli youths actually so hateful and indulged by their parents?

As if the natural world wasn't harsh enough, we bring so much misery upon ourselves and others. Humanity is hateful.

James Glaisher was actually accompanied by Henry Tracey Coxwell on this famous 1862 flight. This movie depicts a woman in Coxwell's place, but claims it is "based on fact". That is shameless and disgusting and does nothing to help the advancement of womens. It implies women can, and have, only achieve great things through manipulation and fakery. Ms Chabert should be ashamed of herself for taking this role

The film had some good special effects and an enjoyable dystopian theme, but it was nothing like as good as it's hyped up to be. Much of the dialogue was incomprensible mumbling, especially by McConaughey, and I eventually had to turn the English subtitles on to see what was being said. The biggest issue with the storyline is that nobody would seriously think of evacuating humanity from Earth under the circumstances depicted. Also, the idea that Earth's atmospheric Oxygen level could drop by any appreciable amount is simple unfeasible, no matter how much we screw up our only home's natural resources and climate. And it's not as if those potential new places for people to live had breathable atmosphere anyway - the crew still had to wear spacesuits all the time there didn't they?.

I'm not a pilot and have little knowledge of DC3s, but I enjoyed the attention to detail of the aircraft, its characteristics, and flying in this movie. I also remember 1974 well and know the Caribbean. To me this was a totally believable story and the aging pilot was a sympathetic character. That is really all I have to say, but for some daft reason IMDb apparently requires movie reviews to be at least 10 lines long, so the rest of this is just fluff to make up the required volume. Actually I found the movie on Amazon Prime and I'm glad I clicked on it and watched it (twice). I suppose most, if not all, of the actors are dead now. Did anyone actually ever fly from the Duch Antilles to Holland nonstop in a DC-3?