The Vidiot Reviews

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2014)

Apollo 13
The worst aspect of space travel in the 1960s was African American astronauts had to sit out on the shuttle's wing.
Oops, my mistake. NASA had no black astronauts at the time this drama is set.
Intent on reaching the moon like his compatriot Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) heads up the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
From a sick pilot (Gary Sinise) to his rookie replacement (Kevin Bacon) to a disinterested public, Lovell's mission gets worse by the day.
But it reaches its pinnacle when an explosion aboard Apollo forces the crew into the evacuation module.
With their air supply in danger, they must jury-rig a way to turnover the shuttle's engine.
Based on the harrowing true story, director Ron Howard emulates the claustrophobic environment of a 1960s space capsule precisely.
Furthermore, NASA really needs to helm a mission back to the moon so they can pick-up their garbage.
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