Apollo 13 Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Classic Film

Apollo 13 directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks is quite simply a classic film. Some of the footage was actually filmed with the actors aboard the 'vomet comet' so the actors are actually experiencing weightlessness. The film accurately depicts the story of the dramatic story of the Apollo astronauts aboard Apollo 13 including Jim Lovell. Often during the film ground control will use techno babble like 'we have a main bus undervault', Its highly unlikely that anyone will know what this means unless you work for NASA but its done in such a way that you know that this is tense and you want to know how these problems are going to get resolved. Great film which even though you know the ending will still give you goose bumps. Essential viewing.

It takes a team

Apollo 13 is a really well filmed movie about the eponymous space mission, the difficulties it met and the heroic struggles required to return the damaged spaceship to earth with its astronauts intact.

The acting is good all around, with special mention to Ed Harris and Bill Paxton for convincibly portaying men at the brink of losing control.

The movie convinces the viewer that space is a dangerous and unfriendly place, and that it can take the ingenuity of many people to succeed even at failing. Intense throughout, this movie portays humanity at its finest.