Awful. Plain awful.

Rating: 2/10 (19 October 2018)

Have just returned from the cinema to watch a movie I was really looking forward to. I wish I had not wasted my time or money. I have no idea why it has such a high rating on here. 7.7. Really???!
One of the very few films I felt like walking out on. I endured it just to see what they Moon walk would be like. Suffice to say it was very boring and very inaccurate and certainly not worth waiting for.
The highlight of this film was the Gemini 8 malfunction. However, even this was wrecked by constant cutaways to the family. What could have been really gripping was totalled by bad direction and editing.
Other points of note:

what is it with EYES. Why the constant need for close-ups of faces and eyes? It just got really distracting. A gimmick that just wears thin really quickly.

what is it with the sound? On "Apollo 13" I had no difficulty in understanding the dialogue. In "First Man" I had difficulty understanding the actors even when they weren't suited up. I sometimes wondered if it was a foreign language film.

why was it necessary to keep ramming the "Armstrong is a family man" down our throats all the time? It wasn't subtle and most of the time was done in a ham-fisted way that just detracted from the rest of the movie. If you want to see it done right then watch "Apollo 13".

the last scene was just creepy. It cemented my thoughts from watching this film that Armstrong was just a creep and shouldn't be left alone with women or children. Totally the opposite of what I believe he was actually like.

the use of incidental music was annoying and often inappropriate to the scene it was used in. Then there was almost total silence on the landing/walk when it could have done with music.

the astronauts were far too busy to be crying on the Moon or hanging their heads in the spacecraft as shown here. Those attempts to make them look human just fell flat.

inaccuracies abound. I felt like I was watching a circa-1950s vision of the lunar landscape with huge craggy cliffs and mountains rather than gently rolling hills and craters. Also, small foot-size craters don't usually all have a lump of white rock in the middle of them.

To sum up: far too much time spent on gimmicks and implausible character situations and dialogue combined with awful sound and a plodding story with nary a dramatic moment in it.
Don't waste your time. Rent "Apollo 13" instead and watch a masterclass in how to make a good film about an Apollo mission.