A biopic about a not very interesting person

Rating: 6/10 (19 August 2019)

Don't get me wrong. I have the utmost respect for Neil Armstrong and from everything I have read or heard about him from people who knew him personally he was the perfect man to become the first human to set foot on another celestial body. Despite his well-deserved place in history, his life and personality don't make good cinema. Armstrong kept most of his emotions and thoughts to himself for a reason -- that's the way he wanted it. To speculate about what emotions the man might have had and displayed privately borders on disrespectful. It as if the film wants us to believe that Neil Armstrong was more emotional than he was, so it fabricated moments in which he was emotive. It was the man's ability to control his emotions that made him great.