A Great Space Tragedy / Victory

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2015)

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
First of all, a nice shout-out to the great Roger Corman, who appears here in a cameo, and Clint Howard, who has a cameo himself. Corman had a similar small role in "Silence of the Lambs", and it is great to see directors he helped raise giving him a nod of appreciation.
Today (2015), those who think of a stranded in space movie may think "Gravity", but "Apollo 13" did it first and did it better. Maybe they did not have the impressive visuals that "Gravity" has, but they knew how to tell a good story and build suspense -- and, best of all, it was completely grounded in reality.