First Man - The film focuses on the sacrifices and emotional cost to his family life and much less about the process behind getting to the moon

Tense exciting documentary drama, based on actual events.

Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong who was initially a test pilot, a man in pain following the loss of his young daughter to a brain tumour, he is obviously struggling with this. Neil Armstrong was a very quiet, private man but with drive and focus.

He successfully applies to NASA.

The film focuses on the sacrifices and emotional cost to his family life and much less about the process behind getting to the moon. There is a constant sense that the training astronauts were in real danger, there is a constantly sense that the mission could fail with no way back alive.

Of course we all know the mission outcome, at the end see the lunar surface and hear the iconic "1 small step for man, 1 giant leap for mankind"

A very nice touch was seeing Neil drop his daughter's bead bracelet into the 'blackness' of a deep crater and in doing so his final closure. A well-made emotional biopic.


8/10