Mission to the Sun (2019 TV Movie) User Reviews

Too much 'drama', not enough information

[frederickwelch · 4/10 · 18 November 2020]

This whole documentary is focused on creating 'drama'. But there are a lot of statements made with no explanation of why. For example; why the crazy trajectory with 24 orbits around the sun? A 45 minute documentary that tells you almost nothing.

Even the worst-written documentary about a solar probe can be worth watching

[flash-104 · 5/10 · 26 April 2020]

Even the worst-written documentary about a solar probe can be worth watching; even the dumbest things the screenwriter can get really smart people to say can be worth hearing. And the relevant graphics are quite good. So try to ignore the sensationalist digressions: When the narrator compares planetary navigation to a sniper, sure enough we get footage of a guy with a gun. When a scientist compares the temperature behind the heat shield to a day at the beach, we get footage of scantily-clad and not particularly attractive beachgoers.

Spoiler: Though the narration mentions the first encounter with the sun in the present tense, it mentions no data obtained by the mission.

Decent, but audio is horrible.

[crimmelhomeinspections · 3/10 · 17 January 2021]

Seems like a fluff documentary with not a lot of useful info. The music plays over top of everyone your trying to listen to and makes it unbearable to watch. Turning on the captions is a must because you'll never understand what people are saying under the loud dramatic music.