Harder to sit through than a long distance flight in coach.

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2018)

Of all the things you could have done with a movie about the first man to go to the moon, this must be one of the worst directions to take.
It totally deflated the achievement by focusing on and portraying his wife as a negative flat and in this movie ugly (on the inside) shrew, and Niel being as emotionally flat and dull as her. I get that American cinema is all about reflecting and focusing on the dark at the moment, but my god it's a tedious and humorless film watch. I've had more fun at the dentist. I've had a less arduous time watching paint dry, and at this movies length I could have done a little of that while the movie played.
Apparently Armstrong and his family aren't as unlikable as this movie portrays, and he had a much more interesting arch to his life than we got to see in this visually clever but emotionally bitter film.
Thanks for dismantling and burning a story of triumph, and making another entry into the unwatchable disintegration of modern movie making.