Mediocre. Even space adepts will be disappointed.

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2019)

Mediocre. Even space adepts will be disappointed.
My guess is, this movie fails from minute 1 due to the premise of this movie. In fact, it was primarily the NASA that landed on the moon finally, and Armstrong was "just" one of its employees. No doubt an able, self-controlled man best suiting for the "job", who took many risks in his NASA career, but there were several others who did succeed, as all NASA missions and the following Apollo missions proved.
So the attempt of the movie to make out an extraordinary "first man" of Armstrong in the positive as well the negative way somehow goes to fiction. I found the movie over-pathetic in long parts, overdramatizing (and over-audioedited) the dangerous experiences of Armstrong. Seeing the movie, you easily can mistake Armstrongs life as one unique depression. Foy as his wife completes this, as she apparently took her worst "annus horribilis" as queen over to this movie as solemn, undercooled wife. As far we know of Armstrong, as restraint he was, he DID smile occasionally in interviews etc., something you will not find in the movie. I think also the side story of his child that died is overly emphasized in the movie. Hard to understand how the successful career of Armstrong leaves you so depressed in this movie, as would he literally have "sacrificed" himself with his hole life alone for this "holy" mission, pathetic! This hole movie looks like a gross misreprentation, I doubt Armstrong would have signed for the script.
As for the CGI of the space flights, they are OK but not that brilliant. Space adepts will easily overlook weaknesses of the script, if the technical portrayal excels, but also this is not very convincig here IMO. Not to speak from the sound editing which I found awful with the exaggerated background sounds.
My guess is, the overly high rating here in fact honors "the important mission", but not the movie itself, and the filmmmakers maybe counted on that.