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- 2022
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 27 m
- 2022
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 27 m
Summary Thirteen Lives recounts the incredible true story of the tremendous global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who become trapped in the Tham Luang cave during an unexpected rainstorm. Faced with insurmountable odds, a team of the world’s most skilled and experienced divers – uniquely able to navigate the maze of flooded, narrow cave tun...
Directed By: Ron Howard
Written By: William Nicholson, Don MacPherson
- 2022
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 27 m
- 2022
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 27 m
Thirteen Lives
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7.4
Summary Thirteen Lives recounts the incredible true story of the tremendous global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who become trapped in the Tham Luang cave during an unexpected rainstorm. Faced with insurmountable odds, a team of the world’s most skilled and experienced divers – uniquely able to navigate the maze of flooded, narrow cave tun...
Directed By: Ron Howard
Written By: William Nicholson, Don MacPherson
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
38% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Thirteen Lives is a film that truly orients itself around a grounded cinematic approach to story, one largely told without big, grandstanding emotional speeches but instead focused on visually capturing subjectivity, demonstrating tension, and highlighting the life-or-death weight of the characters' choices.utm_campaign=clip
A story of overwhelming humanitarian sacrifice.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
7.4
79% Positive
49 Ratings
49 Ratings
18% Mixed
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11 Ratings
3% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
7.4
79% Positive
49 Ratings
49 Ratings
18% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
3% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
This is one of Viggo and Colin's best performances. This movie is an epic retelling of a story that shows grit and strength to push through and be heroes at a level that has never been accomplished before. Ron Howard directs this exhilarating ride into a terrifying reality that twelve young boys and their coach faced for over two grueling weeks. This movie is one of the best films of the year, and based off a true story that is unforgettable.
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Thirteen Lives deserves to be seen. The only question is whether audiences will be up for it. I saw it on a huge screen and had to occasionally remind myself that if it got really overwhelming, I could always close my eyes. It’s that intense.
By the end of the story, the film’s aims are clear: to show what an absolute miracle the rescue was, and to honor the extraordinary cooperation and selflessness of those who came to help. Yes, that’s inspirational. But it also quietly counters a Hollywood history besotted with lone rangers and mavericks. Everyone matters.
If you stick with it through the somewhat plodding first half of this overly long retelling, you’ll be rewarded with a rousing final hour.
You can appreciate the effort, but this falls just short of doing justice to the emotional stakes and claustrophobic terror of the traumatic events themselves.
Howard’s film winds up as a rote retread, transitioning from headline news to big-screen snooze.
Thirteen Lives is a fantastic bio-film about the actual event which we all followed those days. What makes it good is the real drama happening in the movie. Still hard to believe and process how they save those kids. Acting, tension... Everything is perfect.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Feels redundant after watching the documentary "The Rescue," but at least Ron Howard didn't let himself go with the melodrama this time.
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Basically a by the numbers retread of the documentary with better cameras but none of the insight or clarity. Didn't tell us about the lives of the divers or soccer team before hand. Even though the British accents from Viggo and Colin were basically half Australian, they seemed good enough for the job but they were not directed enough to give an impactful performance and all the interactions between the divers fell flat. The underwater and cave diving footage was quite well done but still even that could have been done with more precision as there was never enough context given as to the situation inside and out of the cave and there was not enough clarity of which diver you were watching or the ultimate goal of what the diver was supposed to be doing.
You also never truly felt the claustrophobia of what the dive would have been like as the water was mostly crystal clear with the scary sections basically amounting to getting stuck, and you never truly felt the fear, even when the Navy seal drowns because the pacing was off and there was no music to accompany it. It also seemed like they got through the cave too quickly the first time which made all subsequent expeditions feel less impactful. The constant heads up display of the location inside the cave didn't do anything to help us understand the distances and time involved, and more than that actually took you out of the realism. The way Nat Geo did this was far more insightful. They could have used aerial shots of the mountains or CGI of the cave to show how far it was for them to go but all they give you is a white line with a red dot. They could easily have fit in showing us the boys go into the cave which would have showed us how big the cave us and given them a chance to introduce them as actual characters.
I will give points that the final sequence had the anxiety levels up, however when the divers come out at the end, two of the three Thai divers come out together and then the last after and it seemed like only two had come out and then everyone was celebrating while you were left without closure, which made it so the most crucial part of the film - the sigh of relief - never comes. After this, the movie abruptly ends with the boys waving to their mothers in the hospital. We don't see Rick Stanton meet his wife or see the divers get knighted or the Australian diver return home.
Overall the movie is a missed opportunity to expand beyond what the documentary told us. None of the characters are fleshed out, there is no main character, no supporting cast. Just a bunch of actors who fill in for real people, all participating in the aimless goal of retelling a story that was already told more succinctly and in far more detail and impact before in the National Geographic documentary. Apparently a film called 'the Cave' was already made in 2019 and by watching the trailer shows the divers lives before hand. I would watch that or the Nat Geo documentary if you want a more detailed and interesting depiction.
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Awards
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Heartland Film
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Columbus Film Critics Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
