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Apollo 13 Reviews:
History Comes To Life
2009-12-06 - This two disc special edition of Apollo 13 is awesome one the best two disc movies you'll ever own. this movie is awesome. I recomend this movie :)

Apollo 13 widescreen dVD
2009-11-30 - The DVD was received in quick time from the USA in good packaging. Unfortunately I have not been able to review it as it will not play on any of my DVD players - Perhaps the sellar can advise that certain DVD will not play on UK DVD's. That said I am not put off using the sellar again as delivery and response time was good.

Unable to load
2009-08-10 - The DVD came in great condition. New in wrapper but we were unable to load on any of our DVD players.

Watch "From the Earth to the Moon" instead
2009-07-22 - This is a long movie, and it certainly seems like it. Perhaps its Tom Hank's typically low-energy acting, or just that the movie doesn't recreate the suspense over 30 years after the incident, but I just find it heard to sit through this movie. At times, it starts to seem like the Tom Hanks show.

If there is any redeeming factor to the movie, it's the fact that it later led to Tom Hank's From the Earth to the Moon television series, which is excellent. That series focuses on the entire Apollo program and has a great set of actors [the series includes an episode on Apollo 13, but it also isn't very good]. I would actually give Apollo 13 an extra star just for leading to that series. On its own, the movie just isn't very satisfying.

Makes One Want To Study The Real Astronauts
2009-07-09 -
This was a very well-done true story of a space mission that came extremely close to being a disaster, but the astronauts miraculously made it home safely. It's good storytelling and so interesting that it led me to study the real Apollo 13 astronauts.

The movie is fairly long at 140 minutes and there is not much "action" but there is a lot of suspense and first-rating acting, both of which should keep anyone's interest. Knowing this was a true story makes one all the more involved with it.

For such a tense story, with these astronauts lives on the line, none of the astronauts or people at NASA or anyone's family members are ever seeing praying throughout this ordeal! You can bet, in real life, a lot of prayers were answered on this mission.