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'First Man' isn't the Neil Armstrong biopic you're expecting. It's better.

September 10, 2018

First Man is a big film about the small things that went into an enormous event. 

It’s no spoiler that the climax here is Neil Armstrong’s 1969 walk on the moon. For the first 90 minutes, though, First Man holds back on the inherent drama of that premise.

It follows Neil (Ryan Gosling) as he makes his way through the NASA ranks, and at home as he mourns the death of his young daughter. It spends time on a bunch of promising missions that go nowhere, and on complex questions the engineers will have to solve. There’s some action sprinkled in there, and a few precious moments of euphoria. Mostly, it’s sweating the small stuff. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | 'First Man' isn't the Neil Armstrong biopic you're expecting. It's better.

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