Comprehensive but difficult to watch

Rating: 4/10 (24 April 2019)

This film appears to be an accurate portrayal of the life of Neil Armstrong, his wife and his two surviving children. The film focuses much more on the family life and how they moved from the X-15 project to Gemini to Apollo, rather than on the space missions themselves. There are very long periods of family development and character development with significant emphasis on how Neil and his his family felt with very short periods of the mission development.
If you like films that focus on the people directly involved in historical events, then this film is for you. If like films that are more into how the events unfolded, their planning with some insight into the people that were part of them, then I would avoid this film.
For me, this is was a difficult film to watch as it made Neil Armstrong seem very distant, unfeeling and in many ways, unlikable to me. I found myself waiting for the film to end. That said, I also think it is a good portrayal for Neil Armstrong and his family. This point of view of the these events are just not my cup of tea so to speak.