RogerEbert.com
When not in the caves with the divers, Howard is content to tell this story in such a drab, ho-hum, overly respectful fashion that it starts to drag.
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Thirteen Lives
Ron Howard directs this retelling of the real-life rescue operation conducted in 2018 where a boys soccer team became trapped in an underground cave in Thailand. Stars Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton.
2022Rating: 12, moderate threat, infrequent strong language147 minsUSAMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
DramaTrue Story & Biography
Thirteen Lives | Reviews
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The Times
A profoundly passionless exploration of a mission that is readymade for thrills, spills and handkerchiefs...
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IndieWire
If anything, Howard’s film is so afraid of making this into Stanton and Volanthen’s story that it nearly flattens them into non-characters...
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Time Out
Mortensen steals the show as the cave diving guru only too ready with a voice-of-doom aside...
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A.V. Club
It’s more than a little frustrating that, in a movie that runs almost two and half hours, Howard and screenwriter William Nicholson... fail to deliver properly developed characters.
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FilmInk
Ron Howard creates a film that is visually arresting by recreating the dives with as much authenticity as possible.
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Independent
I do wonder whether all this soberness has prevented a good film from being an extraordinary one.
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Los Angeles Times
An extraordinary story of nerve-wracking heroism gets an appealingly straightforward, propulsive retelling...
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Vox
It... quietly counters a Hollywood history besotted with lone rangers and mavericks. Everyone matters.
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Hollywood Reporter
The suspense inherent in planning and executing the rescue stimulates a sleepy story...
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Thirteen Lives | Release Details
Thirteen Lives is available to stream in the United Kingdom now on Prime Video.