A Good Remake of an amazing true story

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2005)

It's a great portrayal of an amazing true event. It's amazing some of the lengths they went through to film it, perhaps most notably filming scenes in falling planes to simulate weightlessness. When I was a kid I always used to study space travel a lot, most notably the Apollo program. When the movie first came out I was very skeptical, and didn't think they could ever make it look like the true story, especially the launch. But when I saw it I was totally amazed at just how realistic it was. There's a few things about it that are a little bit inaccurate, like some of the patterns on the Saturn 5 rocket, and the course correction in space which in real life was much smoother. But overall it's very accurate and very dramatic. Every time I watch it, it's still an incredible story, and always an amazing reminder of the true story.