Not Your Average Space Movie

Rating: 8/10 (14 December 2018)

Firstly, this film is absolutely fantastic and one of the best space movies made. Chazelle has managed to avoid all cliches that we see in a space/American exceptionalism film and has directed a honest film about the moon landing. Not everything was a bed of roses during that time and I really liked the parts where Chazelle chose to show the public backlash over wasting huge money in the space program. The movie is bound to win a lot of awards in the technical categories and I hope Justin Horowitz and Linus Sandgren are awarded. They have managed to replicate their La La Land work in this film too. Ryan Gosling and particularly Claire Foy are excellent casting choices and the latter is the best performer in this. This movie might not go well with people who expect it to be an over dramatic & showing excess patriotism which is a good thing.