Not Bad But Not Great

Rating: 6/10 (10 February 2019)

This film isn't bad but it isn't anywhere near as good as The Right Stuff. For me, the film drags on too much about Neil's "personal life" (yawn). The director had a wealth of space and technical story lines to follow but a large bulk of this film deals with Neil and his wife (Zzz). I found that part of film slow, boring and a tad pointless. To cap it off, the film then only spends about 5 minutes dealing the moon landing. Regarding the flag issue, as a Brit who was born in 1971, I generally would have liked to have seen the moment the flag was planted. It's a part of history I didn't see live and it doesn't bother me that American's planted it. It's an iconic moment in human history so to not see it was a strange call to make. To sum up, I enjoyed the film; however, it was just a bit slow and dull in places. 6.5/10 does it for me.