Depressed, all the way

Rating: 6/10 (24 November 2018)

I'll get right to the point. It is said Armstrong was humble, almost shy. But the Armstrong in this film is clinically depressed and somewhere between depressed and catatonic. I'll go with catatonic, all the way.
The effects and realism were incredible. But too many tight shots and not enough establishing shots or hero shots.
The soundtrack was hate it or love it, and it was 50ies and 60ies show tunes melodies.
We follow Armstrong day in day out, year after year tragedy after tragedy, and did I say clinical depression? Even his wife gets depressed in the end. A descent into depression where everything seems to be just there and happening and so what.
By the time we get to the moon it is not a climax we were building up to. It's just another day at the office.
I did not at all mind that there was no flag-planting scene. The flag was there. The scenes on the moon beautiful. Armstrong still depressed out of his skull and not interested.
And then, as the LEM shoots up from the Lunar surface, cut to quarantine on earth. No return trip, no splashdown, no arrival.
But there is one thing more bizarre than any of the others. The completely skipped, they did not mention, we did not see nada of Apollo 8, an essential lead-in to Apollo 11.
I needed to watch the Right Stuff immediately after, to return to regular brain function.
If Neil Armstrong was half as clinically catatonic and depressed as in the movie he would not have been able to go to the moon. He would not have been able to hold a job or go to a store to buy a postcard of the moon.