The greatest adventure of mankind reduced to one man's point of view

Rating: 6/10 (23 January 2019)

Spoiler warning.
I get what the director was going for here. A personal account of Neil Armstrong's perspective. But, this event was the first men on the moon. It deserved a much grander and exciting telling.
The movie made it seem like Neil was a very boring guy. I would have preferred to see him portrayed as unflappable.
There was almost no humor in the film. It would have been better to have more different emotional moments.
Music was sparse and often ineffective.
Very few external shots of the spaceships, etc. As noted they wanted to make this about Neil's perspective, but really? The greatest engineering achievement and adventure of all time and almost all is spent in a cramped, dark, capsule. Wasted opportunity. You need to see and feel the scale of this to appreciate what it was like to be in the capsule and that wasn't done at all. I wanted to see this movie on the big screen. But timing and poor reviews kept me from making it happen. I just watched it on TV and I'm not upset I missed it on the big screen because there weren't many big spectacle shots.
The best part of the movie was by far Gemini 8. It was tense and exciting, but still have been done better. Landing on the moon was just okay, when it should have been mind blowing. Being a space nerd I've read the accounts and seen other portrayals and it should have been portrayed as much more exciting and momentous than it was.