Apollo 13 . Tucson Weekly . 07-13-95

Apollo 13

DIRECTED BY: Ron Howard

REVIEWED: 07-13-95

Ron Howard is a child of TV, so it's to be expected that his latest film, like all the others, always tells you how to react. That worked fine in Splash, Parenthood and The Paper, enjoyable films with regular outbursts of comedy. But Howard is at his worst when he takes things too seriously, and he treats the near-fatal Apollo 13 mission with unquestioning reverence: a historical symbol of American heroism. Rarely does he touch upon the terror of dying in space or the weird spectacle the mission became after the public learned of the impending doom. It's a detailed, technically superb movie with a monotonous point of view: that the astronauts suffered nobly.Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon star.

--Zachary Woodruff

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