Space Cowboys

With this summer's movies, and some in the near future, we are going to see if some of the actors that we have grown up with can comeback and do action films. I have heard that some people say that it may not look to promising, that they maybe just to old to do this kind of movie. And this is why I chose this movie today, to show that age doesn't have to dictate the age of the star in an action film. With Clint Eastwood at the helm, he directs James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland in an action movie that shows that age is just a figment of the imagination and you're only as old as you feel. Four Air Force pilots, who are testing to go into space, are side stepped in the 1950s for bureaucratic and personal reasons, but 40 years later when NASA can't do a job, the four men are called into action and show that they still have the right stuff. The opening sequences for the 1950s are done in black and white, and the men portraying the older actors have their voices dubbed over so that the audience can identify the characters easier. The humor that is laced throughout the film works every step of the way, and all the old people jokes are done tongue in cheek so that they are not to offending. The CGI works without a flaw and some of the footage of the space shuttle in orbit is so believable that you think that they are really there. All four main actors carry their characters as if they were the true representations of themselves, and that helps with the believability of the movie and the situations.
A couple of quick stats about this film, this is Eastwood's 22^nd time directing and this is the 42^nd film that he has starred. I enjoyed this movie so much that I rewatched it a couple of days later and laughed just as much the second time around. Movies like this show that given the right story, the right situation and the right actor's, an action movie doesn't need young stars to carry the film or the action within.