Neil Armstrong gets the spotlight in the biopic ‘First Man’
If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be rattling around inside the cockpit of an aircraft as it bounces off the atmosphere, the opening sequence of “First Man” will more than serve its purpose. A pre-NASA Neil Armstrong, played by Ryan Gosling, is testing an X-15 aircraft, and the shake, rattle, and roll, as experienced in immersive IMAX, is overwhelming.
As long as “First Man” is airborne, it’s a marvel. I can’t recall anotherextraordinary-times portrait is intended to Armstrong’s specialness: He was a human being who accomplished the superhuman.
