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Could
pensioner power be about to take over Hollywood? Clint
Eastwood has been there before, when he starred with Burt
Reynolds in City Heat back in 1984. Now he's older
(70) and prepared to take the directors reigns for a film
which brings together a quartet of movie superstars.
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| Ride
'em space cowboy |
Eastwood,
Lee Jones, Garner and Sutherland play test pilots who
failed to get into space back in the late fifties. They
were replaced by chimps.
Forty
years on, they finally have the chance to fulfil their
astronaut dreams when they are called upon to fix a satellite
which has gone badly wrong.
It's
a film for lovers of the more mature actors and it falls
into two parts.
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| So
this is what a few days in space does for you. |
First
you see Eastwood and co. huffing and puffing their way
to a semblance of fitness in readiness for blast off.
Then
comes the action in outer space.
With
four 'A' list actors competing for screen time it must
have been a lot of fun making this film.
A
shame the end product doesn't quite get out of earth's
orbit. With so many stars performing you'd have hoped
Space Cowboys could have reached a little higher.
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