Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

First have to give comment that in here the author did not type names all of the protagonists. It would be good that he/she mentioned all, as for example are Ivan Pavic and his daughter. Finally I saw it and in it all is for me more than "docu-fiction". For sure many of those things really happened in that period, what is shown in that some around hour and a half. It is the truth picture how it can be when someone who is poor, without any cent in his pocket, is gambling with the big and rich players, who have not only the money, but also all needed tools, but maybe not all needed knowledge. Generally speaking, from seeing this material you ask yourself, is it worth to sell the knowledge and how much is it worth? In that situation, you never think about what consequences will appear and in what shape and in what measure. The people of ex Yugoslavia survived that and know very well how it can be.

"Houston We have a Problem" started with an interesting enough concept through a documentary/narrative/fictional structure and strategy in order to deliver a certain idea, which in the end becomes a kind of clinical allegory about the disintegration of Yugoslavia – trying to be entertaining and funny while at it. Until the last third of the film, it was interesting, I admit, and intriguing where it would end up. By the end it was somewhat disgusting by the shallowness of its "irony," given the tragedy it depicts.Zizek's usual overcooked but useless philosophical platitudes ring even more hollow than usual in this context – although he did have some funny lines in the beginning (yeah, and the socks, whatever).It may be an interesting film for a disengaged and clueless audience, who were not affected by the history depicted in this film (or similar experiences in other parts of the world) – but imagine making such a clinical allegory of another, more "relevant" "country disintegration war" or even (gasp) genocide – take your pick – Israel, Palestine, Syria, Libya, etc. -- the filmmaker would maybe be more vilified/ostracized/banished than celebrated for his "cleverness." If you want an effective allegory of what happened with Yugoslavia, watch Tanovic's Oscar winner "No Man's Land," or even better, Kenovic & co.'s SaGA films (google it) – from that part of the world, Bosnians are much better and more interesting storytellers and record keepers than Slovenians (and much funnier, too – for full disclosure, I am not Bosnian and I don't subscribe to ethnic disparagement or similar).PS. It's not really a "1" more like a "5" rating, but just to counter this ridiculous overrated extravaganza here.

The movie could be interpreted in many different ways, that is the reason why it is so entertaining. You can see it as comedy and a stupid presentation of Yugoslavia like Borat did with Kazakhstan, you can see it as black satire made by Kusturica, you can see it as story that actually happened (somehow) in real world or you can see it as total fiction..... . The special aspect of movie is in Slavoj Žižek's involvement. For those who never have any experience with Yugoslavia it seems that he is the person who is trust able - at the end he said, that even it is not truth, it really happened. For those who lived in Yugoslavia, it could be some "way for explanation" why living in Yugoslavia was not so frustrating and was really better in comparison to other communists states. On the other hand, the consequences of "selling space program".... were so devastating for many in Yugoslavia. Anyhow,it is must to see this movie...

This movie is really an amazing peace of work. I took everything it told me as truth and let it create certain feelings. At the end I went back to an assumption that it is fabricated but the feelings remained very solid and suddenly a lot of other information about the past started to fill in the gaps where fabrication was removed. Everything started to make more sense. It was not a pleasant discovery. It's one thing to feel as a victim of some powerful force, but to finally realize your own active role in the abuse, I think it is even harder to accept. Every movie, no matter what genre, is some type of manipulation and an attempt from author to present his own illusion. This movie seems like it is an illusion constructed to deliver the truth, indirectly.