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As a student pilot, I've studied the FAA report on this flight. This movie does not follow what actually happened. There is too much Hallmark channel drama which ruins the action. There is already enough drama in the actual event. It was almost too hard to watch with all of the campy schmaltz. I suggest that this film be rebooted without the praying and side stories that muddy the story. The ridiculous side story about the kids ending up on the runway on their bicycles is silly. God did not land this plane.... ATC landed it. This movie would have been infinitely better if it had followed what actually happened. The only attention to detail was the reveal that Doug eventually became a King Air pilot.

This is a high production value space-based Martian soap opera. The premise is sound and appears to be scientifically accurate. The depictions of weightlessnes are superb, with the exception that there is no hair strand floating, which is a dead giveaway that the actors are not actually in a zero-G environment.

My first impression is that this entire series should be on the Lifetime channel. While I am not going to rudely label this as a movie marketed towards women, I felt the urge to "tell" the protagonists to "get on with it" and accelerate the adventure.

Nevertheless, when astronauts and cosmonauts eventually do travel to Mars, the interpersonal issues depicted in the teleplay are bound to happen and we might as well act them out on the ground beforehand.

But do me a favor, in Series 2, lets have more science and adventure and mystery because if everyone keeps crying its going to get boring and predictable and we're gonna short-circuit something and blow up the ship.

The main protagonist, the South American nurse, who's nationality varies from country to country throughout the film, is a distraction from the gulty party, who is not actually guilty, ostensibly, of the murder, yet, would have been had the patriarch (Plummer), not done what he did. I can't say more without adding spoilers, but I have to say that is film is a prime example how tight editing and dialogue can engineer a film's success. The protagonist, Marta, is what some would call the McGuffin. Slick. The almost film noir detective (Craig) knows it from the beginning but hides behind an intentional Columbo-esque Cajun fog.

Set in a dismal, rainy, foggy England, this awful adaptation projects an equally foggy interpretation of Chesterton's work. Probably the worst dialog and screenwriting I have ever witnessed is dismally spewed out in this wretched adaptation of Chesterton's stories. The protagonist aside, the fact paced barely audible dialog races through each scene as if it had a better place to be. The actors too seem eager to get to the end of the day and go home. I think part of the problem is that there is no music that sets the mood. The sets are claustrophobic and it appears there is only one camera used instead of a more versatile two camera set up. Happily, the sunny cheerful melodramatic Mark Williams remake of this has come to the rescue. I give it two stars instead of one out of a sense of charity and compassion.

I was pleased to note that a sequel to this fine film is in the works, as it should be. Disney deserves to be amply rewarded for this film, and every collector's set of disks should include it. A nostalgic return to Disney's golden age with a refreshingly new twist, it leaves you with a warm and fuzzy feeling about the world. Unabashed sentimentality abounds in this fish out of water romantic comedy that combines the best of 21st century animation and Walt's original magical touch with the kids and adults alike. I love this film and Amy Adams was a perfect fit-wholesome with a capital W. I reminds me of two unforgettable words from my childhood: always believe.