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United States, United Kingdom · 2019
1h 40m
Director David Fairhead
Starring Neil Armstrong, Harrison Ford, Dave Scott, Christopher Kraft
Genre Documentary
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Dramatic, moving and deeply human, "Armstrong" offers the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in Ohio to his first steps on the Moon, and beyond.
There is intriguing subtext buried within Armstrong about who we designate as our heroes at a time of great divide, but Fairhead succeeds at paying tribute to a man who, were he still alive today, probably would have balked at this kind of memorial.
This Neil Armstrong documentary feels like unrequired viewing coming so soon after two cracking moon landing movies.
The 50th anniversary of the moon landings has brought a welter of reminiscences and Armstrong, while entertaining enough, does little to distinguish itself from the pack.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Though the documentary will be welcomed by a certain breed of space buff, both its impact and its commercial hopes are seriously diminished by Todd Douglas Miller's awe-harnessing "Apollo 11," which, unlike this film, demanded to be experienced in a theater.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
The emphasis of Armstrong is to demonstrate that while its subject was not superhuman, he did have exactly the gifts and character the task demanded.
RogerEbert.com by Matt Zoller Seitz
The movie is sleek, smart, and reasonably thorough, and it offers the enticement of never-before-seen home movies provided by Armstrong's family. But it can't really stand out from the flood of material released to cash in on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, because it arrives on the heels of two daring ones, Damien Chazelle's "First Man" and Todd Douglas Miller's "Apollo 11."
It’s all watchable enough but hardly a giant leap for documentary making.
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