First Man, Wrong Lead Man

Rating: 4/10 (23 October 2018)

First Man lived up to my expectations, given I expected Hollywood to screw the story up. For mine Ryan Gosling was the WRONG actor to play Neil Armstrong and did the great man a dis-service. Gosling should stick to Chick Flicks where he looks like he belongs. The movie was a mess of poor directing, poor script and poor acting. What next in our ever increasing PC world - The first moon landing portrayed as being by a woman of color from a 3rd world country. Those rating this junk offering 9s and 10s obviously are paid studio shills or have no clue how NASA or the military actually operates. As Tom Hanks said on the Graham Norton show when he was explaining to Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger how things would go in the movie Sully - "You will hear me say things you never said, you will see me do things you never did and you will see me go places you never went!" Apart from that the movie will be accurate pretty much sums up Hollywood - don't learn your history or form your opinions on movies or what actors say.