Operation Avalanche (2016)

Best movie of this year hands down!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

To be honest I am only reviewing the first ten minutes of the movie, because I couldn't stand watching it after ten minutes.It's really a pity. After I read the introduction on the back cover of the DVD, I was really intrigued and wanted to watch it.Unfortunately the movie is low budget and poorly edited. The camera is shaky. It's not that costly to get a steadycam to stablize the camera. I don't know about you, but it's painful to watch a shaky movie. They may have thought that since some shaky movies were successful, let's save some money and hire a cheap cameraman and editor. But the novelty has worn out for me.If they have a good story, then somebody please re-make it into a higher quality movie. Otherwise it's like cooking up a good dish and then pour hot pepper into it to make it "better" and end up making it unedible.

I gave it 3 stars for the premise. The acting, directing & writing is horrible. Namely Matt Johnson. He ruined the movie in every way possible. It was like watching a bunch of 12 year olds trying to make a movie in their garage at home. Both on screen & the crew behind the scenes were clueless Jr high school mentality & totally unaware just how clueless they truly are.IRL, the real moon photos prove the scenes were falsified. I'm an engineer, scientist & photo expert. This movie was just moronic. It made me nauseous to watch these morons. Save your money. This movie has no redeeming qualities. It is so bad, I couldn't bear to watch the deleted scenes.Capricorn One is much better. Great actors, excellent story & wonderful filmography. Everything this movie is missing. Matt Johnson needs to get out of the film business & never show his face on the screen again, much less write or direct. He bombed out on every aspect he touched. The movie is so bad, it is painful to watch. Even their personal assumptions are clueless on every issue.This is a subject which is of interest to me. It could have been a good movie if properly written with a good crew, good director & decent actors. All of which this film was missing. These actors weren't just bad. They were offensive with Matt Johnson as the worst. It certainly is no thriller. The reviewer who said it was Bill & Ted meeting Dumb & Dumber hit the nail on the head. The entire crew who created this film were a bunch of clueless morons. You can see this by watching them on the special features if you can tolerate it after suffering through the movie.Boring, disappointing, moronic, bad acting, bad directing, bad writing, clueless crew and a waste of money.

in case you haven't heard, mankind landed on the moon. several times. internet douches tried to claim it was faked. they were debunked by nasa when they redid a laser light experiment involving equipment left on the moon. by mankind. because so many people are stupid sometimes lame concepts are funded and acted upon. this is one of them. did you even stop to think [ no you didn't because you're looking at reviews of this garbage ] that men didn't land on the moon in 1967? the cia doesn't send 'young' anybody to do anything unless its using copiers or getting coffee? neil armstrong is a very famous astronaut for a reason? the russians were trying and failing to land men on the moon? as a friend said to me today, 'man people are stupid'. he is right. and you are stupid if you watch this movie

Almost found myself tuning out during the first 10 minutes, but then the story started to evolve into something truly interesting and plausible. The idea that a comedy could become a thriller on such a low budget and encompass such an enormous subject is genius. Use of old Apollo films to weave into the story are well done and believable. It remains a comedy most of the way through, but the underlying premise is a masterpiece and very likely to become a cult flick.This is an incredible accomplishment and leaves the viewer thinking...hmmmmmm. I know I was left thinking it just might be plausible, if not likely.