Astronaut Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer, about an astronaut who is forced to leave NASA because of a family emergency and return to his farm home -- and elects to build a rocket in the barn from spare parts harvested from a NASA junkyard -- is supposed to be an uplifting tale about a lone man in search of his dream. Several critics don't see it that way. Chris Kaltenbach of the Baltimore Sun is one of them. "Painfully earnest, The Astronaut Farmer is, sad to say, a bunch of hooey," he writes. Liam Lacey in the Toronto Globe and Mail uses a similar term: "A slab of self-conscious hokum." Or as Eleanor Ringel Gillespie puts it in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, it's "hard to swallow." On the other hand, Lou Lumenick in the New York Post comes to the defense of the film against "many cynical moviegoers and critics," and describes it as "a charming, low-key Capra-esque fable." And Desson Thomson in the Washington Post gives Billy Bob Thornton, "the actor whose relaxed assurance can boost even the hokiest of roles," credit for rescuing the film.

It is okay, although it is best to wait until it comes out on TV.I actually did not think it was worth it.This is more of one of those; a person may say, "I am bored let us watch a movie on TV type movies."This one has enough glitter to keep your attention on hoping for something, anything different from the common expectations of two kids getting together and deciding to make a movie, but not enough to entertain your mind with a thought of possibility.The fact poorly done as so not enough of it, nor woven together smoothly so to uphold the fiction in the story, as people often read books and or watch movies with an open mind.A child like willingness to believe, even when those who read books, and or watch movies know it is untrue.The common person gives that to the moviemakers and book writers.The rest is up to you folks, and in my opinion, this particular movie did not deliver a performance that, in this particular case, has cost the watcher and that in my humble opinion is a shame, when I do believe, this had potential.