13 and every mission since.

Rating: 7/10 (17 March 2006)

Some critics treated "Apollo 13" like it was the best movie of 1995. I didn't regard it as such, but it is worth seeing as a part of our country's history. As it was, I didn't even know about the Apollo 13 mission until this movie got advertised. Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Kathleen Quinlan, Ed Harris, and Gary Sinise all do very well with their roles.
Looking back on the history of space exploration, one notices that every mission since Apollo 11 seems to have gone wrong. Apollo 13 had its snafu, the Challenger exploded, the mission in 2003 exploded, and a mission last year had a screw-up. Maybe "I Dream of Jeannie" convinced the astronauts that they would get to have hot genies, and they could only think about that and not concentrate on their missions (no offense to "IDOJ"; I love that show). OK, so maybe it didn't work quite like that, but something seems to have gone wrong.
All in all, a very well done movie.