Expected more

Rating: 5/10 (1 November 2018)

Damien Chazelle's newest film explores ground outside the comfort zone set up by his previous two films. First Man is competently directed - it has some really nice shots, good score segments and many other well made elements. The script, written by Josh Singer (the Post, Spotlight), is unfortunately rather mundane: it takes a look at Neil Armstrong's personal and working life fairly evenly in a very unsurprising fashion - the screenplay is pretty middle of the road biopic-stuff. There's probably a great film waiting to be made about the subject, but this wasn't it for me. It's by no means a bad effort, just feels somewhat uninspired and would've needed a different approach to be something more.
Rating: 5/10