This winner of 4 Oscars in 1984 was the final film for me to finish several imdb lists (2004 and 2005 top 250 to be exact).Best picture nominee in the 1984 Oscars that lost out to an emotional film featuring a retired astronaut, Terms of Endearment. This film was nominated for 8 and won all of the non-acting awards, like Effects, Editing, Music, and Sound.
It is almost a film in two parts. The first half focuses on a group of pilots in the desert trying to break the sound barrier. It then transitions on to America int he Space Race. The tie-in is that the first astronauts consisted of pilots, and several of the first were also part of the effort to break the sound barrier.
The film is somewhere between biography, drama, adventure, and epic. This is obviously loosely based on factual events, we really don't get emotionally vested in any of the men in particular, and it is loaded with action and adventure as these men do what not other man has ever done.
I had reservations about making this a 9 or 10. There are too many 80's cheesy moments to make it a 10. The lack of getting emotionally involved kept this out of my 9 range. It really was good though, and has a fantastic cast, namely with Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Sam Shepard, and Fred Ward. I liked it a lot more than "Terms..." and am sure that I would have been pulling for it to win almost 30 years ago.
Vote: 8/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/
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