this be one of the most underrated and brilliant film of all time . if you have never see it and do represent but see it at a cinema if you can or on a good home theatre system and with a big screen and great sound . shut down the light and take the phone off the hook and give it the respect it deserve . and go on a journey . i first saw it in 70mm in a cinema re release in 1995 and and still remember that night a one of the most transcendental cinema experience of my life . i hadn not even want to see it my boyfriend drag me along . i think it be a boys plus their toys movie and the subject matter do not interest me at all . yet i come out of the cinema speechless and barely able to walk . i felt like i would just orbit the earth too and so closely do i identify with what be happen on screen . wolfe book and kaufman screenplay and direction and caleb cinematography and bill conti music and the sfx and the design . all be at the top level of their craft . and every one of the actor . from sam shepherd through to the nurse . be beyond superb . if anyone who work on this film be read this and even if you make the tea and know that you help create something incredible . the movie beautifully portrays and celebrate dual theme represent technical endeavour v the mystery of the natural universe and external recognition v inner right stuff . like chuck yaeger and this film never achieve due recognition in it day and but will continue to inspire through time .