Director Damien Chazelle
Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
Rated M
Score 5/6

American Astronaut Neil Armstrong from 1961-1969, on his journey to becoming the first human to walk the moon. Exploring the sacrifices and costs on the Nation and Neil himself, during one of the most dangerous missions in the history of space travel.

I’ve been meaning to review this one for a while and I have finally gotten around to doing it. For those of you who might not have heard First Man has a degree of controversy about it because when Armstrong landed on the moon the American flag was not unfurled. It was an odd move by the filmmakers considering the accuracy most cinema goers seem to demand from their movies (it should be noted that according to Neil Armstrong’s son Mark First Man is the most true-to-life depiction of his father’s journey). I got the feeling that First Man is different to some of the other movies dealing with the race to the moon it dealt with the Gemini and Apollo programs but also with Armstrong’s family life and the fact that the unfurling of the American flag was not depicted struck me as being humanistic. Now First Man is another addition to the list of movies that I probably should have watched at the cinema mainly because the scenes when they finally land on the moon did not have the sense of awe that the filmmakers where probably going for. So, I would advise that you watch it on a big screen tv with good speakers.
This was director Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling’s second collaboration together, with the first being La La Land (2016). Gosling gave a good performance, even though it seems that she did not have a large part in the movie Claire Foy as Janet Armstrong had one of the more memorable scenes that I was not expecting. I’m starting to enjoy Jason Clarke’s work as an actor I also have to wonder was Buzz Aldrin as blunt as Corey Stoll portrayed him to be.