Not Boring . Just an insightful character study that stuck mostly to the facts.

Rating: 8/10 (25 November 2018)

Firstly when making a biopic about an individual the film maker has to ask themselves am I going to make the bio historically accurate to capture the fact and the individual/ characters or are you going to give your audience a flavor or the facts and main characters with out being historic. I say this because a recent film by the name of Bohemian Rhapsody came under fire for being historically inaccurate and now The First Man has been called boring by some on this site for being very accurate.
The First man isn't and action movie, nor is it a Team up against it film. No its an in depth study of a man who did an extraordinary thing. Neil Armstrong is possibly's histories biggest enigma. The first man to walk on the Moon but is the last man ever to seek publicity from that experience.
From what I've read over the years Neil Armstrong was an Ice man, a man who would never fold under pressure. He was also a family man who did his job without drawing attention to himself.
What the film tries to do is find out what made Armstrong tick. This is achieved with the near perfect casting of (less is more) Ryan Gosling, who hardly needs to say a word to emote what Armstrong is feeling .
Then there's Claire Foy as Armstrong's wife Janet. She is the audiences window into Neil's personal life. She also challenges his cold exterior and shows us his vulnerabilities . The scene where she pushes him into talking to his sons about the Moon mission is more powerful than a Saturn 5 rocket and yet she hardly needs to raise her voice.
The supporting cast is also excellent I especially liked Cory Stoll as Buzz Aldrin, The only man to say say out loud what everyone's thinking.
Also it must be said that this film is not boring, in-fact I found some scenes terrifying simply because they used the effects so well.. The effects put you in Armstrong's cockpit and not a Star Wars inspired tracking shot..
The First Man gives the watcher a realistic picture of what it probably like to be an astronaut. and for that is commendable. I don't think it was ever designed to be a blockbuster. It just got marketed that way.