PG | 1h 45min | Documentary, History, Science, Technology | 4 November 2022 (USA)
For a movie so deeply steeped and rooted in science and adventure, the new Amazon documentary “Good Night Oppy” (GNO) is in relatively short supply of both. Unlike the sublime, just-the-facts masterpiece “Apollo 11” (2019) or the criminally underrated, bare-bones sci-fi mood piece “Moon” (2009), “GNO” is more closely akin to the dramatic, heart-tugging “Hidden Figures” (2016) and “Apollo 13” (1995).
There’s no denying those latter two titles are excellent, fact-based human-interest stories and that is exactly the same tone and hook “GNO” strives for. The problem is, the principal “characters” in the film are robots that have human traits and characteristics thrust upon them by their creators and the wonk marketing wing of NASA….