Lack of realism detracts from the reality of the actual events

Rating: 6/10 (12 October 2018)

Overall I am disappointed by this movie, which tries to be docudrama. While visually spectacular, it often fails to depict the environment of space realistically.
Some of those scenes are beautiful and great (lunar module Eagle gliding serenely in lunar orbit) - but other key scenes fail miserably, if you know what the reality is like. Many of the scenes set in the vacuum of space (not inside the ship) have explosive and whooshing sounds. The director is trying to make it more "exciting", but it's not exciting to me if I know it's not real. A few movies have gotten around the "space is silent" quandary in imaginative ways - "Gravity" used extremely effective music to go along with soundless explosions, "2001" used the sound of breathing as the astronaut drifted through the void.
The lunar landscape is depicted as ridiculously craggy and extremely steep, especially at Apollo 11's landing site. At one point Armstrong walks up to a crater, which looks like a deep black well. Silly and phony-looking. The craters and slopes on the real Moon are almost always very gentle and lunar terrain has been softened and sandblasted by micrometeoroids for billions of years,
The Earth is depicted as a crescent during the Apollo 11 EVA, when actually it was gibbous on July 20, 1969. You might say that's a very minor nitpick, but the movie presents itself as a docudrama - displaying technical sloppiness with no regard for realism.