DipitySkillful
an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Seraherrera
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Liam wuthrich
i think this was a good film because it was a true story in history and there was a lot of cutting corner's but they built a great aircraft that could break the sound barrier also great acting because it was a event in the 50's era for a Canadian aircraft design for a film also was this a two part film or did they pull this film from store's the same time they pulled it from TV. i watched the show on TV when it was daubed on TV also there were other film on at this time but this film was a different film type and you had to no something about air-plane and studying the event in history in school along with other event's Studied in school's in Canada and the state's and around the world in the different university offering history class's. good film and it was based on a true story up to the end of the end of project arrow. i still believe if the plane is in a museum there is a real plane 1 or more hidden in our planet somewhere were every they could have landed a complete aircraft with the fuel payload design and spec for this aircraft if not collecting dust some-were in a hanger or air-force base or area 51.
cinemabitch
I really enjoyed the movie! Given, I am a sucker for films about aviation, space, and engineering. About an all-Canadian interceptor/fighter built in the late '50's, that was years (if not decades) ahead of its time. The true story shows the development of The Arrow, a plane capable of Mach 2, but also the politics that ultimately doom the project. I am glad that it was not ALL "blame the Americans" as it showed Canadian internal politics, personality conflicts, personal flaws..... and ........ yes....... The Americans (who didn't want the competition in aviation from North of the border).This ranks right up there with space and aviation films like THE RIGHT STUFF, and FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. It is also a great story of concepts ahead of their time getting squashed, like the film TUCKER: A Man and His Dream. A similar story might be (though not yet on film to my knowledge) about Jack Northrop and his flying wing which had a similar development and fate in the US. Of course, Northrop's concept was validated with the B-2...... But, I digress........Though the budget was low (a Canadian Mini-series, after all), they did the most with what they had. The choice of R/C models for most of the flying scenes was a good choice! It gave the look of the film an organic feel, as opposed to the CG effects, which were so-so. I hope they donated the full-size mock-ups to a museum!If you love stories about aviation, space, engineering, or cold war history, this is one to find on tape or DVD, or search for on cable! A must see!
gmr-4
in having a crack at the C.B.C. out of Windsor. I watch it all the time.*** POSSIBLE SPOILERS ***THE ARROW is based upon a story of which I was ignorant, no aviation expert, but it has inspired further study. Knowing something of Canadian history, I too find the anti-Progressive-Conservative angle in THE ARROW a bit much. They could have shown something of the Government point of view in the recession of 1958-9, and the serious doubts emerging about Canada's fiscal ability to build, deploy, and maintain such an armada. Also, the knock-out redhead engineeress played by Botsford does seem to find her way into a awful lot of prominent places in scenes, a function more of the gender of one of the co-producers than any weight of female contribution to the project. Ackroyd does fine work, but how close to Gordon that rendering is . . . cannot say. I agree with another writer that Eisenhower is not done well at all, and certainly the Canadian stable of actors could have provided a man better suited if less well known. I have it on decent authority that Chamberlin was not a quirky as depicted, and were he alive in 1997 he would be offended. Oh yes: the is NO WAY the Arrow could have reached the edge of space.All said, however, I found THE ARROW genuinely moving in places, and understand the mythic proportion it has come to occupy in Canadian history and that people's sense of national accomplishment as well as the bitterness from the airplane's cancellation in subsequent decades. It is good that someone put it on film.
Cassius-4
The Arrow is a very dramatized version of the happenings around the Avro project.The Arrow is a real feel good movie for us Canadians. Though Dan Aykroyd has had better days, it's important that he was included in the Canadian cast, bringing a familiar face to a long forgotten subject.Just recently an original Avro Arrow model airplane was found in Lake Ontario.
