Apollo 13

It's a nail-biter and knuckle whitener of the first rank: a super real life techno thriller that reduces the fantasies of Tom Clancy and his clones to ground zero.

Ron Howard's film of this mission is directed with a single-mindedness and attention to detail that makes it riveting.

Apollo 13 is humanized by Hanks's reassuring portrait in courage, by Harris's nicotine-stained fingers and Quinlan's lacquered French twist.

The film, despite its raggedness, is stirring. In the end, this failed mission seems like the most impressive achievement of the entire space program: a triumph not of planning but of inspired improvisation.

The lean and efficient screenplay, based on the book "Lost Moon," by Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, is full of the terse poetry and dry humor of people in crisis.

Self-conscious about its heroism with portrayals that lean toward the glib and the professionally uplifting, the film milks our sympathies too readily to be emotionally convincing.

And as film, Apollo 13 is dull… Partly it's because there are no characters, no room for any substantive character development… Apollo 13 is staffed with human puppets. [31 July 1995]

Such a classic, awesome movie. This is just one of those movie that when you are flipping through the tv and find it on you just have to stop and watch it. It never gets old.

I personally think that Apollo 13 is the best movie ever made, the combination of drama and historical accuracy really brings to light what happened in the vast empty of space all those years ago.

Nice movie, right atmosphere and good historical reproduction of events with good realism. Overall a good movie

The film fulfills in accurately and truthfully reproducing the events of a lunar mission that went wrong and became a race against time to bring astronauts home and alive. The actors also fulfill their task; but it feels that it is due to generate suspense.

A reasonably good space film with good acting and music though takes a while to get going.