Excellent compliment to other, more conventional Apollo documentaries
Saw it today. Great film!
It's different in style from the typical documentary: No talking heads, no narration, and the use of music is fairly sparse. It very much takes a fly-on-the-wall, you-are-there approach. Instead of just a quick shot or two of the crowd at Cape Canaveral, it takes you INSIDE the crowd. Instead of just shots from Mission Control, it puts you literally inside the halls of NASA. Where other films would just give you a quick cut of something, this film lingers.
When it does use music, it's very effective. And it's not the typical grand orchestral score, but instead much of the soundtrack is synthy, electronic-sounding tracks that give the film a distinct, sometimes eery feeling and vibe. It's very effective.
I wouldn't recommend this film as someone's first Apollo documentary--I'd say go watch something more conventional--but this doc is an excellent compliment to those other films for people who already know the story.
My biggest takeaway is simply this: It's amazing the plan worked. There was so much that could go wrong and doom our astronauts, and yet, amazingly and against all odds, they were triumphant.