This week, we feature an animated fantasy sure to please dragon fans and a Western adventure with John Wayne in his first starring role.
New Release ‘Good Night Oppy’
This feel-good documentary chronicles the 2002 project to complete two robots—“Opportunity” and “Spirit”—that will journey to Mars to determine if there was ever water on the now dust bowl planet. While the engineering process incurs its share of Murphy’s Law, the launch and mission does succeed.
Relying heavily on CGI for the bulk of the Mars segments, the near thriller, while impressive, feels synthetic. For a movie so deeply steeped and rooted in science and adventure, the new Amazon film is a bit in short supply of both….