That's How You Chronicle A Life

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2019)

(Flash Review)
The director doesn't treat us like infants needing to be spoon fed a bullet list of Neil Armstrong's life's achievements. Instead you ride co-pilot feeling, hearing and even smelling the rawness of the his piloting career in NASA's cutting edge technology as he and they shoot for the moon. While seamlessly blending in the sobering reality of his life as a husband and father, his career is not shown as glossy perfection but in brutal honesty which is brilliantly echoed by the cinematography, editing and production quality. The tense moments were also very tense for the viewer because you are sitting co-pilot or even in Neil's POV. This was great film making that avoided being another chronological checklist movie. Bravo!