A powerful movie which had unnecessary criticism

Rating: 8/10 (4 February 2019)

While I have watched dramas about space travel like 2001 and Interstellar, along with ones about the space race like Hidden Figures and The Right Stuff, but this movie is in a league of its own. It shows the trauma Neil Armstrong and his family experienced with the death of his daughter in the early 1960s, along with the death of fellow astronauts over the years. It also shows a space program enshrined in NASA which was in shambles, with all sorts of problems. I also liked the inclusion of criticism of the space program, although including Gil-Scott Heron's "Whitey on the Moon" leads to historical inaccuracy as the song came out in 1970, not 1968. Additionally, while this film is a powerful drama, it really only focuses on white people, specifically white men for the most part, with women, apart from Neil's wife, pushed to the sidelines, which leads to problems. Still, I would say this film is still good, despite the absurd criticism of U$ flag not being the focus of the film.