Review of First Man (2018) by Fadeblack — 15 Oct 2018

It was certainly not what I was expecting. Extremely low-key and understated. Felt a little bit like an Indy movie with some big budget side takes. On one hand I appreciate that they tried to give it a more distinctive style in a sea of space movies, but a lot of it didn't work for me.

The family stuff, there was some depth to that, but too much of it just came out bland and ineffective. There was definitely a great a mount of research and effort put into the NASA parts of the movie, but too much of it was procedural without any real tension.

Now, the actual moon landing scenes were indeed quite beautiful, and as can be expected elevated the movie, but still it's hard to give it more than a 5, 5.5/10 at most.