In fact, a lot of the color of the film comes from the distaff side, with Brenda Vaccaro and theĬriminally underrated Denise Nicholas standouts as significant others. What are essentially one note characters. Performances are generally excellent, with Waterston and Brolin managing to bring conviction to While Capricorn One is a bit too overheated for its own good, and suffers from an increasing sense of incredulity, it's also undeniablyĮntertaining and, finally, rather exciting. Looking landscape works up considerable suspense. While again completely ridiculous, the extended quasi-chase scene that finds the trio wandering through an intentionally ironic alien Toward a rabble rousing final act, when yet another plot contrivance suggests that the astronauts' "acting days" may soon be drawing to aĬlose. However, writer and director Peter Hyams smartly ups the ante as the film works The middle section of Capricorn One tends to lose a bit of steam, as the astronauts are consigned to acting out their landing even asĬaulfield attempts to figure out what's really going on. Starts chasing the truth after his version of Deep Throat spills the goods, or at least tries to before things go awry. Meanwhile, in a tip of the hat to another film dealing in political conspiracy, All the President's Men, it's a crusading journalist, Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould), who Studio inside a hangar (NASA may have issues with subcontractors in this film, but their ability to create "must see tv" evidently isn't a Get along," and to prepare to act out a "Mars landing" in front of a somewhat miraculously assembled battery of cameras in a television The three putative astronauts are instead whisked away to a top secret location where they're told under various threats to "go along to In much the same angst, but it manages to work up a fair amount of tension, perhaps all the more remarkable given its somewhat ludicrous
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.
CAPRICORN ONE FILM WIKILEAKS SERIES
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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