First Man - 登月先鋒

First Man (登月先鋒) is an 2018 film. The movie stars Ryan Gosling. The supporting cast include Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, and Kyle Chandler. The movie is based on the life of Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon.

The movie starts with Neil's plight as a test pilot and his application to the space program for the astronaut program. Neil gets in and moves to Houston with his family. The families of the program all live in the same neighborhood. The wives end up getting to know each other. As the film progress over a roughly 8 year period of trying to land on the moon. It starts with runs into the earth orbits to try things all the way to the landing on the moon. Along the way, we see the life of Neil unfold in bits and pieces. You can't cover 8 years of life in a 2 hour film, but they try.

The film was a pretty slow movie. They try to take a very extreme close up view from the shaking that happens on the aircrafts. I just ended up getting a headache and not watching and I watched it at home. If I were in the movie theatre, I might have thrown up. The story presentation was also very uneven, it goes through the space program life really fast and the lack of real character development makes following them a bit less emotionally attached. In the end, my thought was, finally over. I also fell asleep a couple of times and had to rewind.

I picked this up via T-Mobile Tuesday's Redbox promotion.