Was the moon landing achieved by the NASA team on July 20, 1969 real or is it one of the biggest lies ever told by the United States government? For years, thousands of people have doubted this question. Rumors about the falsity of the images broadcast live on television have overshadowed for decades what would be one of the greatest achievements of engineering: the arrival of human beings to the Moon.

In this film, director Greg Berlanti, known for his somewhat inconsequential romantic comedies, delivers one more film to his credit of... well, just that: inconsequential romantic comedies. The premise could certainly be interesting: an excellent marketer is hired by the U.S. government to generate in American society a revival of interest in space missions, after interest had fallen precipitously following the Apollo 1 disaster in which three astronauts tragically died in January 1967. Her mission? Get into the depths of minds and hearts through advertising to generate expectation towards the Apollo 11 mission, which would try again to take three astronauts to the Moon, and, through that, get the government to continue financing the space programs in a Cold War that put the U.S. in a space confrontation against the U.S.S.R.

The problem with the story is that Rose Gilroy's script makes everything forcefully comedic-romantic-false. It was his first job as a screenwriter and it seems to me that the inexperience is evident, with a somewhat misplaced narrative, without a clear direction, which goes from sincere comedy, to cartoonish comedy with absurdly stereotyped characters, and from there to romance, but beyond to historical drama.

The cast, led by Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, does not work. I sincerely believe that the script does not clearly capture what type of characters the film wants, and the director did not help in giving them the proper guidance. If there is someone who is saved, it is precisely Scarlett Johansson, who does what she can with what she has, and she ends up being the most balanced of the entire group.

At the end? Will people be satisfied with this attempt to validate the official story of the moon landing? I don't think so, if anything the movie will only reignite rumors about how the entire broadcast was a setup and that the famous astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, never reached the Moon.