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7.6/10 • 69

2022-11-041h 45m

Documentary

A 90-day mission becomes a 15-year journey of opportunity.

The inspirational true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ended up surviving for 15 years. Follow Opportunity’s groundbreaking journey on Mars and the remarkable bond forged between a robot and her humans millions of miles away.

Directors
Ryan White
Writters
Helen Kearns, Ryan White
Editors
Helen Kearns

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  1. Angela Bassett

    Angela Bassett

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  2. Steve Squyres

    Steve Squyres

    Self

  3. Jennifer Trosper

    Jennifer Trosper

    Self

  4. Rob Manning

    Rob Manning

    Self

  5. Kobie Boykins

    Kobie Boykins

    Self

  6. Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu

    Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu

    Self

  7. Doug Ellison

    Doug Ellison

    Self

  8. Abigail Fraeman

    Abigail Fraeman

    Self

  9. Vandi Verma

    Vandi Verma

    Self

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CinemaSerf

Nov 25, 2022

6/10

I thought that was going to be far more interesting than it ended up being. The documentary tells us the story of the hugely innovative and ambitious task to send two motorised, solar-powered, rovers to Mars. One called "Spirit", the other the eponymously nick-named "Opportunity". History tells us what happened, but I was was very much hoping for more meat on the bones of this astonishing feat of science and engineering than is delivered in this rather dry, vox-pop style, recounting of the project. It is interspersed with occassional actuality, but there is a real paucity of that as this trundles along in a remarkably sterile fashion delivering little of the senses of excitement, frustration and enthusiasm that must have been experienced by this team as the venture gathered pace. Indeed, this whole thing really rather lacks any pace at all. It is more of a video-diary style chronology peppered with some overly earnest contributions. Some of the "wake-up" songs are quite good but whoever concluded that delivering us a host of scientists doing pieces-to-camera was going to prove engaging just, in my opinion, missed an "oppy" to populate this with much more of the imagery NASA collected. It all ends rather sentimentally too and left me feeling just a bit disappointed..

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
planet marsnasaspace exploration