Ron Howard does not hang around for Thirteen Lives.
It is not long after 12 Thai schoolboys finish a game of football and then they are trapped in a cave as a monsoon descends.
While trapped, attention turns to a team of specialist cave rescuers led by Rick Stanton (Viggo Mortensen) and John Volanthen (Colin Farrell) who locate the boys.
The next problem is to how to bring the boys out to safety as they have swim underwater, through tight spaces and with oxygen tanks.
Based on real life events from 2018. Ron Howard has a sure touch given that the outcome is well known.
He uses all the tricks from his 40 years plus directing career to keep the tension going.
It is slightly overlong, but there is enough peril along the way.
It is not long after 12 Thai schoolboys finish a game of football and then they are trapped in a cave as a monsoon descends.
While trapped, attention turns to a team of specialist cave rescuers led by Rick Stanton (Viggo Mortensen) and John Volanthen (Colin Farrell) who locate the boys.
The next problem is to how to bring the boys out to safety as they have swim underwater, through tight spaces and with oxygen tanks.
Based on real life events from 2018. Ron Howard has a sure touch given that the outcome is well known.
He uses all the tricks from his 40 years plus directing career to keep the tension going.
It is slightly overlong, but there is enough peril along the way.