The only movie where engineers and science are the heroes. Detailed and realistic beyond most. Gravity, you suck!

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2014)

A great movie of history which sheds a lot of light on the extremely awesome technical accomplishment it was to send people to the moon (and with computers that could "fit into a single room" that are less powerful than and old Nokia brickphone).
There's a bit of drama added, but overall the movie does extremely well at also going deep into the technical struggle with a well executed fortitude far beyond what most Hollywood would dare (i.e. Gravity).
This movie teaches, entertains, and inspires the audience toward scientific endeavor like no other. Special effects are amazing, especially for its time, but they are not the sole source of meaning (as with mofoing#! Gravity). Apollo 13 respects its audience, and though filmicly it's rather standard storytelling, it's great to see a film made that tells such a story.