Many beautiful moments, but Gosling ultimately downs this mission.

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2019)

There's a lot about this film that I appreciate, the recreations, the cinematography that matches the old footage, most of the performances and the first person perspectives of the various missions and disasters.
That said, what was the deal with Ryan Gosling's performance here? I can recall one instance in the film when he managed a smile, the rest of the time he has a look of perpetual seriousness on his face.
His portrayal of one of greatest men who ever lived is that of a constant sad sack, a man who looks so forever depressed that he doesn't seem to care about what's happening around him, I know he does, but he doesn't look it.
I'm not really sure what happened during the production phase that makes the filmmakers believe that Neil Armstrong was so deadly passive that he'd rather be elsewhere than at the helm of a spacecraft.
The rest of the film, though, golden and very well done.