Biopic about the man, Armstrong, who became the first to walk on the Moon.

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2019)

My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay from our public library. Of course the picture and sound are first-rate, but it also included a number of interesting "extras" on the making of, including how they recreated a realistic Moonscape instead of using CG.
I remember all this well, I was a college student in the 1960s when JFK announced at Rice University that we were going to put a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s, and we did in 1969. That man was Neil Armstrong, played here by Ryan Gosling.
So this movie, "First Man", is primarily about the man, Armstrong, what in his life influenced him and what drove him to succeed. It doesn't cover any of his growing up in Ohio, or his Aeronautical Engineering education at Purdue University, or his stint in the Navy. Instead it starts in 1961 when he was a test pilot then was chosen for astronaut training, and ends with his return to Earth after the first Moon landing.
Armstrong was a special kind of astronaut, most focused when things became tense, without him at the controls the safe Moon may not have ever happened that day in 1969.
Good movie!