A good film, but the music sounds awfully familiar

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 1999)

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards (but not best director), "Apollo 13" is a little sterile, filled with techno-speak that sometimes makes the action difficult to follow, but, overall, it is a good film, very deserving of its Oscar nomination for best picture. Tom Hanks, sacrificing the spotlight to do ensemble duty with Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon, is terrific, of course, completely natural as astronaut Jim Lovett, and, as always, eminently likeable. The entire cast is equally fine. James Horner's Oscar nominated score, however, should have been disqualified on the grounds that it sounds suspiciously like the melody of Art Garfunkel's 1973 hit, "All I Know." Am I the only one who noticed that?