Review: The Imax documentary 'Apollo 11' is a virtual round-trip ticket to the moon
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past eventsBuzz Aldrin on the lunar surface in “Apollo 11.” In Aldrin’s visor, you can see the reflection of Aldrin’s shadow, the Eagle lander and Neil Armstrong, who was taking the photograph. One of filmmaking’s cheapest tricks is on-screen applause — where characters clap to cue the movie’s viewers that they should also be impressed.
It was inevitable that some movie about the first moon landing would be released in 2019, the 50th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin’s stroll on the lunar surface. But Miller’s documentary still packs surprises, because in the buildup to that anniversary, a momentous discovery was made at the National Archives: a hoard of never-developed film from the Apollo 11 mission was unearthed, some of it in 70mm.
There are no voice-over commentaries here, no talking-head interviews or TV news clips. We hear Walter Cronkite, the Homer of the American space odyssey, but we never see his face. Other than the astronauts, the celebrities, including Johnny Carson, are reduced to spectators, sweltering in Florida’s July heat along with everyone else, as they wait for liftoff — and a glimpse of the day’s real stars.The emphasis is on workaday procedure, not giant leaps.
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