In this film, an engineer gets a phone to repair a failed satellite. Perhaps the strange engineer will turn to this, where he and his colleagues are supposed to be in space for a new trip.
...an equivocal movie that can't seem to decide whether to play its ridiculous premise straight.
Common Sense Media
December 28, 2010
Weak and saggy script meets predictable plot.
New York Times
January 01, 2000
Without succumbing to bitterness or nostalgia or overstating the case for one generation's virtues, [Eastwood] and his cohorts mount a vigorous and funny defense of maturity.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
A terrible effort with a bland script, boring plot, and uninspired story...
The movie may not pack anything near the emotional punch of Unforgiven, but it's an entertainingly raffish action-comedy nonetheless.
Suite101.com
November 04, 2010
Problems are evident, and eminent, from a black-and-white flashback prologue in which four young men speak with old actors' voices. Yes, a man purportedly in peak physical condition sounds like a 70-year-old who's eaten bags of gravel daily for 30 years.
