Remember all those tinfoil-hat types that swore up and down the moon landing was faked? Well, here’s a fair idea of how it may have went down. By the time the two stories coincide, you’ve got a real barnburner of an action flick here with just a little schmeer of science fiction. You have the astronauts on the one hand trying desperately to escape various assassination attempts, and you have the journalist trying desperately to figure out what’s going on while dodging various assassination attempts. It may be one of the deepest and most complex movies I’ve seen in a while-in fact, it’s almost TWO movies packaged together in one. The astronauts aren’t terribly interested in cooperating at that point, and stage a desperate escape attempt while an investigative journalist pieces together the clues that something is gravely wrong from outside the whole thing. The only way the space program can ensure that their ruse will go unnoticed is to arrange for the deaths of the astronauts upon the space capsule’s “re-entry”. And by “convince”, of course, I mean “threaten to kill their families”. So in a last-ditch effort to save a whole bunch of cushy government jobs, the head of the space program stages a Mars landing set and attempts to convince the astronauts involved to work with him. This failure may well mean the end of the space program. True to life, this failure means bad news for NASA, whose funding is hanging on by a thread as it is.
The plot is actually fairly complex-a space capsule meant to carry three astronauts has a major mechanical failure. They then found Capricorn One, a development that I’m actually glad for. So Lions Gate, for reasons that baffle me to this very second, apparently decided they were running out of direct to video horror titles to release into the marketplace and instead started digging around in their vaults. The three astronauts escape and separate, hoping that one of them will live to expose the sensational fraud.Starring Starring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, O.J. After news reaches the captive astronauts that their rocket disintegrated upon re-entry and the world believes them dead, they know their very existence poses a threat to national security. Caulfield and a colleague search for the truth. Intrigued by the possibility of a government cover-up. Receiving no co-operation from his supervisors, he casually mentions the incident to his friend, reporter Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould). As the flight apparently proceeds on schedule, a NASA technician notices a discrepancy in a computer read-out. On a nearby sound stage, a simulated walk on Mars is set.
The astronauts are removed from their spacecraft to an abandoned desert hangar and ordered to participate in an elaborate charade, simulating a Martian landing as cameras roll and with the entire world as an audience.
The whole world is watching the first manned flight to Mars, but its three astronauts are plunged into a hair-raising battle for survival within a clandestine operation involving intrigue and murder.
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