We've got two posh people with a dream. They have a balloon, they fly in it.
Obviously they nearly die a few times, because people don't fly in balloons when there is blue sky and no wind they choose a cloudy day with isolated storms, makes sense. In those days they didn't have weather forecasts so that meant people couldn't look up and see what it was like, lol.
They also seem to get up to at least 39,000 feet, but of course a thin jacket that will be enough at -30c or more, hat or gloves? Not me mate. They also have Indian and other friends of different ethnicities to fill in a token diversity quota, it's not as if people were fighting inequality in those days. Also in real life the woman in the story was a man. Where does 'based-on real events' end and 'completely made up twaddle' begin? Why not make it totally fictional rather than air-brushing fake characters into and real ones out of history? What's next a story about the first climbing of Everest with Emily Hillary the bee-keeper from Nigeria and her Sherpa lesbian transgender lover Tina-zing?
Obviously the in-basket tension isn't enough so they cut in and out to flashbacks with rich people being posh and rich to help rope-in some of the Downton Abbey market, the whole story could have been told in the balloon without the need to play dress-up.
It's an stupid airbrushed version of history, what's even more stupid that they could have made it totally fictional and about people actually fighting discrimination, but they just pretend everyone is thinking as 2019, but wearing top hats. People fought for trade unions, the womens right to vote and not being spat at in the street because their skin had the incorrect pigment. How does this airbrushing help anything? It's the worst kind of denial, like saying the holocaust didn't happen because it's depressing and disturbing. We can't let truth get in the way of fun times. This movie is for smiles on faces bums on seats and money in our pocket.
Might be good to pass an few hours on a long haul flight. The acting is good, the music is good, the visual effects are stunning, could have been much better, but it wasn't terrible. A marshmellow of a movie, nice to look at and to eat, but nutritionally lacking and can make you feel sick if you over indulge.
