Boring, revisionistic, inaccurate... just bad

Rating: 2/10 (15 January 2019)

I don't know how this movie received good reviews. The story (as presented, not the actual, real story) is boring and drawn out with many irrelevant scenes, conversations, etc. The cinematography absolutely stunk. The dialog could have been written by grade schoolers, even the music was horrible. They tried to make Armstrong out to be an emotionally disturbed man, which, when considering the rigorous phycological testing and screening that all of these men were obligated to submit to, is completely absurd. Any man with even a hint of mental or emotional issues would never have come close to making the cut in the astronaut program. The director also seemed to have a political point to make by injecting even more irrelevant fluff about racism, poverty, and the rest of the same old tired, politically correct propaganda. I am not sure what his point is but it isn't merely political propaganda that he engages in. He twists the entire story to tell a tale that is conflated, confused, ubsurd and downright boring. And to top it off, it was simply poorly done. Don't waste your time if you haven't already. I truly wish Ron Howard had made this movie.