Apollo 13

Ron Howard is a skilful film craftsman, and he shows it in Apollo 13 too, which is based on real events, namely the spacecraft Apollo 13's failed trip to the Moon. Because of a technical fault the spaceship loses engine power, energy and oxygen, so instead the trip becomes a rescue project in which it is a question of whether the three crew members, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, can be brought home to Earth alive at all. Gary Sinise plays the astronaut Ken Mattingly, who was supposed to have been part of the team instead of Swigert. Now he ends up in charge of an important part of the rescue work on the ground.

Apollo 13 is, however, and remains a boys' film, for technical terms are flying through the air, and as I am a little slow on the uptake when it comes to technology, I did not in every case understand the clever rescue manoeuvres.