Review of First Man (2018) by James B — 04 Nov 2018

This movie is one of the worst pieces of garbage to get spewed out of Hollywood. I had high expectations given the hype, but sadly, this was not "The Right Stuff." The problem may lie in the main character on which the movie is based, Neil Armstrong, or more likely that one of America's greatest achievements was watered down to a vanilla "human achievement.

" Armstrong is portrayed as a colorless technocrat, who is somewhat cold to his family. The movie focuses mainly on his family relationships, and the landing on the moon is somewhat secondary, therefore the movie lacks a lot of drama.

This is unfortunate since Armstrong led a great life as a fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut. The other characters all suffer from superficial once overs. The astronauts were all household names, but you wouldn't know it from this movie.