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Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2000)

Why? Because it´s an excellent movie. It´s a big surprise to me, that Ron Howard did this one, after he has become famous for more entertaining than pretentious stuff (Cocoon, Parenthood, etc.). I guess this film was an important turning point to him. It brings the nearly- catastrophe of April 13th, 1970 close to you. When I´ve watched "Apollo 13" the first time, I was amazed about the weightless in the spaceship, and I asked myself "How did they do that?!", because it looked so real! They simulated the weightless in the NASA KC-135 jet. A big praise to all the actors for their hard work to let this film look 100 % realistic. Breathtaking in every moment, altough you know the ending. It´s an intimitate play in space, so don´t expect an action packed movie like "Armageddon". "Apollo 13" is a thousand times more thrilling than a lesson in history.(and I liked history lessons!)