Matt Johnson's Operation Avalanche is a sporadically amusing realisation of a well-known conspiracy theory, buoyed by technical excellence, entirely convincing period detail, and likeable performances, but hamstrung by the ridiculousness of its found-footage narrative core.
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"1967: the height of the Cold War. The CIA suspects there is a Russian mole inside of NASA, sabotaging the Apollo program. They send two young agents on a mission to go undercover, posing as documentary filmmakers, there to capture NASA's race to the moon. The real mission - use their access and technology to hunt down the leak. But what they discover is far more shocking than soviet spies... Their government may be hiding a secret about Apollo that could define the decade, and the White House will stop at nothing to silence anyone who learns it." Lionsgate
