We never went to the Moon. It was all a US conspiracy to "win" the Cold War. You must have heard it. There are thousands of people who believe that Neil Armstrong wasn't the first man who stepped on Earth's satellite and that it was all a staged performance aiming to persuade humanity that it had truly made that giant leap.
Some even went as far as claiming that successful director Stanley Kubrick was the one who directed the whole thing. After all it was around the year he was shooting 2001: A Space Odyssey, with its amazing effects and completely believable representation of space, that the Apollo 11 mission, which would be the one that would finally bring man on the surface of another planet, was on its preparatory stage. And isn't it true that Kubrick asked NASA for information concerning space and the space stations they were planning for the future?
This is what Operation Avalanche, directed by Matt Johnson and starring himself and Owen Williams is all about. The film is a mockumentary which follows two CIA Agents who pose as a documentary crew in NASA wanting to find if someone is a double agent for the U.S.S.R. and report him. But soon, they find out a big secret that NASA has been hiding from the public: we cannot land on the Moon. Our technology has not reached the point that enables us to land on another space object and everything is at stake: the USA will seem weak and the U.S.S.R. can win the cold war when it comes to competition in technological development. So, that's when an amazing idea forms in our protagonists' minds. The US will shoot a video of a landing and present it as real.
The movie starts out really funny and the documentary-style direction makes it quite interesting and engaging. However when all the pawns are in place and the story seems to be ready to unfold, it all starts to slow down and go around in circles. There is conspiracy after conspiracy in order to end it all in an open-ending kind of way and at the same time you never get to invest in those characters or care about their mission. Unfortunately, what started out as a what will this be, ended up as a what could have been. A nice effort nonetheless.Operation Avalanche was shown on September 24th.
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