Could have been brilliant

Rating: 4/10 (16 February 2020)

Could have indeed. Really wanted to like this.
It's a very strange film. Some of the sequences are very well done however, I will give it that. The moon landing felt a little disjointed, and as usual with films of this nature they are always strapped in seconds before launch.
Buzz Aldrin seemed portrayed as a complete dunderhead, bizarrely. Micheal Collins, was he even mentioned? For a brief second or two.
While I never met Neil Armstrong, the interviews i have seen of him around the moon landing and later in life - he doesnt come across as the depressing monotone character portrayed in the film. However I have also read the family thinks it was a good portrayal, so who am I to argue. The rest of the Astronauts are also seemingly portrayed as, well, one dimensional couldnt care less figures. It was hard to like anyone apparently.
Even the spacecraft are seemingly falling apart, dirty, almost 'starwars like' in interior appearance and make the oddest noises whilst in roll program and pitch manoeuvres. If this is actually the case I apologise, I was under the impression especially the command module and lunar module were built in clean environments and not reused in any way, to actually get this worn rag tag look. Very odd.
Still think Apollo 13 did it better.