First Man Reviews

I already saw this movie but, for some reason, I was quite eager to check it out again. The first time around, since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I was quite eager to see it. Well, it’s a pity it turned out to be a flop at the box-office as it was, in my opinion, much more interesting and enjoyable than ‘La La Land’ (seriously, it is possibly one of the most overrated movies released during the last 5 years). To be honest, I wonder why they didn’t release this movie a year later as it came out just a year before the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing but, maybe, it would haven’t made a difference. Anyway, I thought it was a fascinating look on the race to the moon and I loved the scientific approach they took. It was also really neat to discover that Neil Armstrong was neither some cowboy or even a soldier but a very accomplished engineer. In fact, all these astronauts and even pretty much everyone involved in this project turned out to be pretty damned smart. And, yet, as pointed out by Janet Armstrong, fairly often, you wonder if these guys really knew what the hell they were doing. Indeed, at least 3 times during the whole duration, Armstrong came close to loose his life and, yet, each time, he kept on going without much hesitation. To be honest, at first, I had some doubts on how they played out the Apollo 11 mission though. I mean, it was, just as the rest of the movie, very well done but, after all what happened before, it felt actually slightly anti-climactic but, after re-watching this movie, it didn’t bother me so much after all. Anyway, to conclude, it was another fascinating movie from Damien Chazelle and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.