Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, is best summed up by the next lyric of Frank Sinatra’s song.Let me play among the stars.
Director Greg Berlanti’s romantic comedy, which imagines that Richard Nixon’s administration really did film a fake, backup moon landing in 1969, is a mystifying misfire all along the way from initial concept to end credits.Where his movie does achieve liftoff, however, is its charming pair of A-list leads, who are mostly immune to the deadly material.
Johansson and Tatum have a sparky, opposites-attract chemistry, and they are indeed fun to play among for a while.So ends the niceties.This one’s a doozy.
Berlanti and screenwriters Rose Gilroy, Keenan Flynn and Bill Kirstein have made what resembles an earnest historical reenactment feature.
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