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70% Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Matt Johnson Edited by Curt Lobb Director Matthew Johnson Producers Matthew Miller, Lee Kim | 6/10 IMDb 69% Metacritic Music by Jay McCarrol Initial release 22 January 2016 Music director Jay McCarrol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Matthew Miller
Lee Kim
Matt Johnson Written by Matt Johnson
Josh Boles Starring Matt Johnson
Owen Williams
Josh Boles Cinematography Jared Raab, Andrew Appelle Cast Matthew Johnson, Josh Boles, Jared Raab, Krista Madison, Sharon Belle Similar Movies about the Apollo program, Conspiracy theory movies, Thrillers Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operation avalanche 2016 movie official trailer
Operation Avalanche is 2016 American-Canadian found footage conspiracy thriller film directed by Matt Johnson, who co-wrote the film with Josh Boles. Johnson and Owen Williams star as CIA agents who infiltrate NASA to expose a potential mole, only to become embroiled in a conspiracy to fake the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing.
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- Operation avalanche trailer 2016
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Operation avalanche trailer 2016
Plot
Two CIA agents infiltrate NASA to expose a potential mole. There, they find that NASA has kept their inability to reach the 1969 deadline for the Apollo 11 Moon landing a secret. They subsequently become involved in a plot to fake it.
Cast
Production
Production took place in Toronto, Houston, and Washington, D.C., starting June 30, 2014. The NASA scenes were shot on location. To get permission, Johnson told them he was making a student documentary. Additional scenes were accomplished through liberal application of newly-permissive fair use laws.
Release
Operation Avalanche premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Johnson had received an offer to premiere the film at the Toronto International Film Festival but declined, reasoning that the film would be lost in the large number of films shown there. Lionsgate released it in the US on September 16, 2016.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 69% of 51 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.4/10. Metacritic rated it 69/100 score based on 18 reviews. Peter Debruge of Variety wrote, "Matt Johnson and Owen Williams' wild, borderline-illegal stunt delivers big time on its crazy premise." John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "likeable if not always convincing fantasy that gets much mileage from its period feel". Anthony Kaufman of Screen Daily wrote that the film "comes across more as a rambling lark than a tightly conceived film".
