Ultra-first person / anti-engineering perspective spoils film

Rating: 5/10 (16 November 2018)

Quite apart from the extreme shaking shots of Ryan Gosling's head and eyeballs, I was very frustrated by not seeing appropriate clips of the vehicles which did the work. The X-15 rocket plane (seen in background), the Gemini 8 spacecraft (not shown at all), the massive 1 mph Crawler which transported the Saturn 5 from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad (only views of its tracks are shown), the Atlas Agena docking rocket (tiny view from a very long distance), take-off from the Moon, all come to mind.
Views of some rockets are shown at extreme angles, looking along the hull - no "beauty shots". This is in marked contrast to Apollo 13 where brief but appropriate cutaways to the ship are shown and greatly enhance the storytelling.
The view that "It's about the man, not the machines" is dumb IMHO. Without those machines we would still be navel gazing and howling wistfully at the moon.
Surprisingly the Saturn 5 for Apollo 11 is shown in all its glory during launch. Director could have maintained his anti-engineering stance and only shown ultra-close ups of rocket plumes, ice falling off the body, weird views looking down the body etc. I wonder why he broke his consistency here?
Normally I would add a movie like this to my collection but I found it so frustrating to watch for reasons outlined, I don't think I will...