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This documentary emphasises the rising anxiety among the mission controllers, astronauts and their families, NASA and the US government, and eventually the whole world via the news media - at least, for those with journalists at the scene.

The personal reactions/body languages and team challenges of specialists working under extreme stress are fascinating to observe - plenty of thought-provoking content here for training courses, supplementing the usual Tom Hanks account focusing on the CO2 scrubber.

Brits of a certain age will spot an anxious James Burke, crossing his fingers and knawing his gnuckles. Patrick Moore's facial expressions are telling as always, despite him having a non-speaking part.

There is loads of genuine Apollo footage (albeit supplemented by some fill-in content from other missions) plus contemporaneous TV coverage and home videos. If the evolving crisis doesn't spark your imagination, the remarkable scenes of a distant earth viewed by three men uncertain they would ever return, are well worth the watch. Even the crude TV "graphics" tell a story of the time.

If you take a small sip of sherry every time you spot a cigarette or cigar in Mission Control, you'll probably miss the closing scenes ...

Bottom line: a superb documentary account of the near disastrous mission - gripping stuff, highly recommended.

Cheesy story. Cheesy dialogue. Cheesy robots. Cheesy music.

Ridiculous fight scenes. Crazy obsession with coffee and chess. JLo sobs, cries and squeals her way through this. Never mind the laws of physics - an analyst outlasts her entire squadron of troops and - of course - rescues the mission from the very brink of disaster. The AI in this film seems to consist of a 3D laser-projected image of a spinning pebble with a voice like Hal, lots of swishy screens and a neon green hearing aid. Watch out for the magic flaming sword, several squishy heads and a mysteriously painless compound fracture of the tibia.

Despite slighty-above-average story telling and acting, the film is let down by the lame stories being told - such contrived romantic nonsense, less credible than a political candidate's rhetoric. The way the stories intertwine throughout the movie is nowhere enough of a distraction to ignore the ridiculous Mills & Boon tripe playing out before our very eyes. Even the 'surprise' ending falls flat - a last desperate attempt to rescue this train wreck from running off the rails. Too late, it's long gone. Gwyneth makes a fair job of it. Other actors try hard to fill out their two dimensiomal characters. Do they succeed? You decide.