Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Dartherer I really don't get the hype.

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

urbanesatan The most unrealistic piece of garbage I've ever seen. Why did I waste 2 hours watching this god awful sandwich of poop. The movie started off pretty well but the plot suddenly turned into a classic C grade movie. I don't even know if I can write 5 lines of text for this dumb movie. Even fourth graders would laugh at this whimsical fantasy of nonsense. Narnia was more believable.

Jesus EFFINCHRIST This movie sucks. I decided to watch this hoping to see an interesting flick about an amateur astronaut, but what do I end up seeing in my movie box? A pathetic, idiotic family that live on sentiment and daydreams that would never work. The whole point of the movie is that dreams will get things done. But that's not true. Dreams do nothing, doing things gets things done. Farmer would have never been able to build the rocket. Period. Judging from his whimsical character, he didn't have a practical side to him. He had no scientific basis behind anything he was doing. For example, deciding to switch fuel types, and saying "I think it will work". Or something to that effect...Plainly said, the scientific terminology in this movie was non-existent, and what the writers did put in was so thinly stretched it made no sense at all.When the rocket shot out like a flying sausage across the Texas landscape, it shouldn't have. In a real accident in such a case, the rocket would have exploded right there in the barn and blew the bleep out of the cows, the house, the media, and started a wildfire.There is no way he could have recovered the rocket from that accident, even if he would have survived. Then to think his idiotic family would find a way to rebuild it is beyond me. None of the characters in this movie had any sense of reality at all, and even though they use some key words to make less educated viewers think that they know "science" it is obvious they don't have any clue what they are talking about.I'm all for people building rockets and going into space and stuff. Actually, it is my passion. I study physics and astronomy and I really hope that more and more people get to go into space. This is why I cannot help but point out the unbalanced sentiment(90/10)science aspect of this movie. Adding to that, the whole reason why he wanted to go into space was just to go. He didn't have any plan for doing any sort of scientific activity up there. That is the way to get funding. Of course he's going to look like an idiot.Base line, if you are thinking of watching this movie in hopes of seeing anything remotely related to real science and amateur space exploration, pass this one on by. The makers of this film definitively made it to market to people with limited knowledge of how science works, and play entirely on "family element" and emotions. There is nothing else to this movie. A little interesting orbital CGI, but not worth waiting for.

david-2829 I wanted to like this movie, and it caught my attention at the beginning... but as the movie devolved into trite, feel-good, sentimental mush I went from enjoyment to frustration.I know people will say this is a family film, but I like my family to have good role models - not some dreamer who pursues his desires at all expenses. Yes it is important to pursue your dreams, but when you start a family and need to be there for a wife & three children, you don't gamble everything on a foolhardy mission likely to kill you. That's not admirable, it's not responsible... it's selfish.So the core message is white-washed, and then you get other junk messages like throwing a brick through a window is okay if you were angry and you apologize later, ... and promiscuity is okay in your teens (when Charles reminds the shrink he asked her "to go to the moon with him" and she said that was just about getting laid.) The acting wasn't bad, but the music was bland (cue "We Did It" music, cue "We're going through a rough time" music, etc.) . My initial thought was that this movie might be okay for my 10-year old... but the more I thought about the messages and the annoyances, I don't think so.

ghenipus Since we've lived through the very beginning of commercialized spaceflight, the notion of an engineer and former astronaut trying to build a working rocket and space vehicle in his barn isn't that difficult to entertain, on one condition. The ATTEMPT makes for a good story, but so long as the film takes itself at all seriously, the man shouldn't be able to actually succeed. The first half of this picture is an interesting film about a man, Farmer, who is putting the finishing touches on a Mercury-Atlas style rocket, complete with capsule and what looks like a surplus Mercury project spacesuit (which he wears positively everywhere that he goes, much like a five-year-old carting around a favorite stuffed-animal). His family believes in him seemingly because it's more fun to entertain his fantasy than it is to rain on his parade, his neighbors are taking bets on whether or not he'll die much less succeed, the government is investigating him ever since he tried to obtain 10,000 gallons of rocket fuel (two awkward FBI agents are inserted for comic relief, and the FAA plays the heavy with threats to shoot him down) but no one except for Farmer himself authentically feels that he'll ever launch. Up to this point, the film is kind of like Fitzcarraldo with a booster rather than a steamship -- you don't believe he'll pull it off, but you keep watching to see just how he'll fail. And, had he actually failed, even if he'd given up after his first fantastic, life and property endangering horizontal launch, the film would have worked as an inspiring story about a genius with a crazy dream who knowingly bites off more than anyone can chew, but keeps right on biting.Instead, the film changes direction mid-stream and crams so many suspensions of disbelief into such a short time that it looses whatever credibility that it may have spent the first half gaining. How would a man under investigation by the government for building his own rocket be able to obtain another junk booster for his second attempt? How could Farmer completely rebuild his rocket from scratch in such a short time period that his very young girls don't look noticeably older from project start to project finish? How would a barn and a house within walking distance survive the launch of an Atlas booster unscathed? How could a fifteen-year old boy single-handedly man both launch control and mission control for an orbital flight, AND maintain contact with a spacecraft on the far side of the planet without any help from relay stations over yonder? They go on and on. I guess the biggest question is, why did the writers of this film resort to such a cop-out as suddenly endowing their never-succeed-but-never-give-up main character with the Midas touch, when they've spent half of the film laying out all of the reasons that Farmer's dream really wouldn't work? Maybe they figured we'd have so much fun watching the thing go up that we wouldn't ask these questions. Maybe some watchers will.If you set out to make a fantasy, don't ask us to place it in reality for half the film. If you set out to do a story about a man whose dreams get knocked down again and again, don't suddenly make him inhumanly successful at all he attempts. I liked the first part of this film, but to paraphrase a line from a more famous movie, Flying into space ain't like dusting crops. Depicting it as such takes more suspension of reality than I wanted to give this film.