Sound Effects Are The Main Thing

Rating: 3/10 (16 October 2018)

The film opens with a bewilderingly long sequence of Neil Armstrong on a test flight, everything shaking, loud noises. I didn't know what to make of it. Then there's Mr Armstrong back on land, with his family. After a while there are more spaceship scenes, with loud roars and clanking sounds. It then dawned on me that these special sound effects were at the core of the movie and I should appreciate them. And so I did, right till the moon landing at the, which is also a protracted screen shake. But really, getting you to feel what it must be like inside a space ship landing on the moon is not enough to make for an enjoyable movie. Indeed, it makes for an incredibly pointless and boring movie. Sad.