Space Station (2002)
IMAX

Description

Space Station is the first cinematic journey to the International Space Station (ISS), where audiences can experience for themselves life in zero gravity aboard the new station. The audience blasts off into space with the astronauts and cosmonauts from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome to rendezvous with their new home in orbit 220 miles above Earth. Space Station is a story of challenges, setbacks and triumphs and ultimately, the shared international victory of men and women whose dreams exceed the limits of life on this Earth.

Reviews

9.2 digitallyobsessed.com | Dan Heaton

Space Station provides a glimpse of a magical world and will hopefully inspire a few bright young viewers to aim for the stars.
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9.0 DVD Verdict | Jeff Andreasen

If you can't go…go IMAX! Since none of us mere mortals have the simoleans (or notoriety) to thumb a ride to the International Space Station at the edge of the final frontier, this awesome presentation is as close as we're ever going to get.
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9.0 Amazon user reviews

The narration, camera work, direction and editing are very impressive. Some launch scenes will leave you scrambling for cover they are so real!
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7.5 TV Guide | Ken Fox

Narrated by Tom Cruise, this spectacularly photographed, 40-minute film is the first IMAX production shot in outer space; it's a perfect match of content — the construction of the International Space Station (ISS) — and IMAX's large-screen 3D format.
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7.0 Boxoffice Magazine | Jordan Reed

The daily routine and critical steps--both of which will have you wishing you'd never given up your childhood dream to become an astronaut--that made up the charmed lives of the numerous teams as they orbited 220 miles above the planet, assembling the ISS piece by multi-million-dollar piece, are captured in intimate detail, as are the breathtaking images of space, still riveting and awe-inspiring to anyone with a heartbeat and invoking jealousy as well as wonder in us poor Earth-bound mortals.
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7.0 Variety | Scott Foundas

Like so many Imax pics, the logistics and technology of this production -- the making of a film in space with the enormous clarity and depth-of-field afforded by the 3-D Imax frame - are more impressive than the end product; it might be more interesting to see a movie about the making of this movie than the movie itself.
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5.0 DVD Town | Josh Lambert

If you're a space nut, you'll love "Space Station." If you're the casual technology or documentary watcher, it's a decent purchase. If you go to IMAX films because they have big screens, however, you may find yourself asleep before you get to the midway point in the film (unless you just can't get enough of Tom Cruise).
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