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User Reviews for: Apollo 13

Jaitower
CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  5 years ago
I don't know how to start the review, so I'll improvise a bit. I also don't feel like trying hard to make a good review for this movie.

The film is fine and details the hardships experienced by Apollo 13. To begin with, the camera shows us in detail the facilities, the rocket, the control room and all the personnel behind the space mission, something that will be so throughout the movie. However, in my opinion, the planes of the exterior of the rocket when they are in space are VERY typical. In addition to what was mentioned before, even if it's a trifling detail, the sounds of the alarms and walkman are attenuated so that astronauts are better heard speaking. For my point of view it is nonsense because it takes seriousness. For example, in '2001: A Space Odyssey' the alarm sounds are kept for minutes, even if they are uncomfortable. On the other hand, the soundtrack is very heard. It is the typical orchestra that accompanies patriotic scenes from war movies and video games, such as in 'Medal of Honor'. The script is not very original, It is full of threadbare phrases. The first idea was to memorize all the cliches and quote them, however, they began to be so many that I ended up saturated and forgetting the memorized ones. Especially the character played by Ed Harris. Virtually each and every one of his sentences is unnatural. Seriously, if someone spoke like that in real life, I would tell them they have a serious problem.

In short, the film is good, but the plot has a style of action widely used in the cinema so it ends up being boring. Also has too much pro-American feeling for my taste. Although it seems unimaginable that there exist movies about the space race (science fiction or not) without so much patriotic feeling, there are.
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