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Apollo 13

1995

Ron Howard

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise ...

6.4

29,438

Drama. Adventure. Thriller The true story of the planned Apollo 13 Moon landing in 1970, which went wrong. Soon after the Apollo’s launch, an explosion occurred in the mixing tanks. The only solution for the controllers was to abandon any attempt at landing on The Moon and concentrate on trying to bring the three astronauts back safely. But the explosion had damaged power systems, meaning that the capsule had to be brought in on minimum power. This meant that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] unfolds with perfect immediacy, drawing viewers into the nail-biting suspense of a spellbinding true story"	POS
United States	Joe Brown The Washington Post	"This amazing journey is harrowing and exhilarating (...) The lean and efficient screenplay (...) is full of the terse poetry and dry humor of people in crisis."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"This meticulous but ultimately rather pedestrian drama gradually won me over as a minor if watchable example of the 'victory through defeat' brand of military heroism that John Ford specialized in."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It’s easily Howard’s best film (...) Hanks gives another great performance — instinctive and assured (...) Bacon and Paxton also do wonders in fleshing out their characters"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] is directed with a single-mindedness and attention to detail that makes it riveting. [Howard] doesn't make the mistake of adding cornball little subplots to popularize the material (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Salisbury Empire	"This is an exhilarating and believable journey to the dark side of the moon and (thankfully) back again. A blast (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"'Apollo 13' may be handsome, earnest, well-acted and admirably executed, but it's hardly the heart-pounder Universal's hype machine has been promising (...) The story they tell is not sufficiently cinematic."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It chronicles one of the most dramatic of all spaceflights (...) and it does this in a way that’s so authentic, so brilliant in its technical details, that it succeeds in putting us on that ship."	POS

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