With these two relatively pedestrian helicopter explosions out of the way we’re then treated to one of the strangest sequences to end a movie ever committed to film.īrolin runs in slow-motion through a cemetery to gatecrash his own funeral. By this point one can only assume that Gould was scrabbling to find the lever with the words ‘ejector seat’ on it. Normality restored, I can relax a little.įor reasons I’m not quite sure, Savalas then shouts “perverts!” for comic effect. Surely we haven’t come this far together be denied at the final hurdle?įortunately, the pyro-technician for the second chopper is wide awake and it goes up like a Christmas tree. His plan is to send an empty shuttle into space and rely on his snake-like powers of persuasion and a couple of guarded threats to bring our reluctant astronauts on side - played by James Brolin, Sam Waterston and OJ Simpson.Ĭhopper one hits the rock face nose first and drops like a stone. So as not to lose face in front of the pen pushers in Congress by postponing the mission, Dr Kelloway (played to perfection by Hal Holbrook) decides to fake the mission. The motive for faking the mission comes after an oversight by NASA boffins leaves the shuttle’s life-support system ill-equipped to, well, support any life. Set in a kind of 70’s alternate reality where the US is engaged in a space race to get a man (or men) on Mars, we’re drawn into a world of subterfuge and conspiracy as they attempt to fake the landing and subsequently prevent anyone from finding out. Such was the case when I sat through 70’s conspiracy thriller Capricorn One (1978), recently. A wise man once said that sometimes the expectation of seeing a helicopter explode in a film is just as rewarding as the moment itself.
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