Competently made film with one huge flaw

Rating: 8/10 (14 October 2018)

I will get this out of the way: I do not believe America landed on the moon. This movie only reinforces my conclusion about this. The moon hoaxer crowd makes a lot of great arguments about this. Also, since the Apollo missions in the early seventies, no other country or private space entity has ever gone to the moon. That's a bit suspicious.
The movie is a great watch. It does come off as propaganda at times, but it tells the story and does it to the point. I won't say the acting was outstanding because it really wasn't. The directing and cinematography were; it's what I've come to expect from Damian Chazelle.
One egregious omission was leaving out the planting of the US flag on the moon. That was just ridiculous. You have a movie here that could be shown in schools everywhere and they ruined it by omitting that scene. What were they thinking? That's pretty historical. I could see a lot of history teachers refusing to show this movie because of that and it's a shame. It's history. If it had anything to do with the international box office, I'm sorry, if you go to see this movie overseas, you will know what you're getting into beforehand.