Apollo 13 Reviews
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Ron Howard's film of this mission is directed with a single-mindedness and attention to detail that makes it riveting.
Read the full reviewPerhaps the most impressive feat of this film is sustaining white-knuckle tension even though the chain of events is well-known.
Read the full review"The Right Stuff" will endure as the more ambitious movie, but this book-faithful, 2-hour team effort shrewdly keeps its eye on the ball.
Read the full reviewApollo 13 is humanized by Hanks's reassuring portrait in courage, by Harris's nicotine-stained fingers and Quinlan's lacquered French twist.
Read the full reviewHoward lays off the manipulation to tell the true story of the near-fatal 1970 Apollo 13 mission in painstaking and lively detail. It's easily Howard's best film.
Read the full reviewTom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon try to get inside the skins of these space-age pilot jocks, but the roles, as written, don't give them enough to work with.
Read the full reviewIt's exceedingly linear structure, while unavoidable, renders it rather methodical and shallow in characterization.
Read the full reviewThe 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.
Read the full reviewSelf-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.
Read the full reviewI just wish that "Apollo 13" worked better as a movie, and that Howard's threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment weren't so darn wide.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 77
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