Chile Puede |
Chile • 2008 • 85m •
   • Directed by: Ricardo Larraín. • Starring: Boris Quercia, Javiera Contador, Willy Semler, Hugo Arana, Álvaro Rudolphy, Bélgica Castro, Cristián Arriagada, Luis Corvalán, Catalina Saavedra, Antonio Quercia, Christian Michaelsen, Felipe Castro, César Arredondo..   The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.
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At the beginning, the film cuts right to the chase: In a third-world country with no space agency and almost no space experience, a Spanish language teacher is launched in a spacecraft - that lacks security measures and has little-to-none oxygen. He won the "honor" of being Chile's first astronaut... at a TV-show.
Also, the entire mission control crew departs at the first scene.
Is a great premise. But, instead of taking advantage of it, the movie revolves endlessly around the astronaut's girlfriend quest for the launching site. Sure some gags appear, but they're mostly a cavalcade of clichés. The USA counterpart of the Chilean mission control, instead of evolving into clever irony, is just campy at its best.
On and on, "Chile Puede" was a brilliant opportunity of making a really smart comedy, sadly lost into boring, old and worn-out gags.
Review by axolotl from the Internet Movie Database.
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