Excellent film about a great NASA accomplishment.

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2002)

By far the finest film made about an actual space travel mission mainly because this had the always-important life and death drama element. The Right Stuff (which also starred Ed Harris) was a great film about actual space travel events but its appeal was more on the historical nostalgic aspect of things. Having been in High School when this i.e. Apollo 13 took place I remember that while it was carried on the news it was not around the clock coverage something that was just not all that frequent then like it is today. Great film making and direction by Ron Howard. Great performances all around. While watching this film give some thought to what was actually accomplished and also what was accomplished by the entire manned space flight program between 1961 and 1972. These were years before the computer technology that is enjoyed today existed. It is now the year 2002 yet we are not in space as it was portrayed in 2001 A Space Odyssey. In fact it has been 30 yrs since anyone has walked on the moon. Were the accomplishments such as those of Apollo 13 all for nothing or is man truly going to venture out and visit the moon again along with the planets and their moons as well? Let's hope so.