Moonfall just was worth what I paid to watch the DVD – nothing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At my local public library I saw a DVD of a film released just this January. I checked it out, took it home, and watched it for Thanksgiving. It truly is a turkey – a long series of scenes with awful storytelling.

 

Moonfall is an independently-produced ‘science-fiction’ disaster film co-written, directed and produced by Roland Emmerich. It cost around $146 million to make, but only made $66 million. The CGI special effects are the best thing in it. But the unbelievable premise of a Hollow Moon is a silly conspiracy theory. You can watch a two-minute trailer here on YouTube. There also is a ten-minute YouTube video from FilmComicsExplained titled MOONFALL (Lunar Megastructures, Rogue AI & Ending) EXPLAINED.

  

Imdb describes the plot as follows:

 

“In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler [Halle Berry] is convinced she has the key to saving us all - but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper [Patrick Wilson], and a conspiracy theorist, K.C. Houseman [John Bradley], believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find that they just might have prepared for the wrong mission.”

 

Some critics were puzzled. At Rolling Stone on February 3, 2022 David Fear gave it a review titled Is ‘Moonfall’ an actual movie, or a prank that’s being played on audiences? And in another review at FlickFeast on February 3, 2022 Dallas King said:

 

“…So the crux of the movie is ‘the moon is out of orbit’. Audience members, think of a reason as to why this would be? Got one? It doesn’t matter how outlandish it is. Write it down. Right, now scrunch that up and throw it away, you are not even close. Now Google moon conspiracy theories and pick the craziest sounding one. Still nowhere near it.

 

The third act of this film goes to places that are so insane that it will leave audiences slack-jawed, open-mouthed and shaking their heads in utter disbelief to what they are witnessing.

 

… To be fair, the film does live up to the title. The Moon does indeed fall. It is just a shame that by watching Moonfall, your IQ will also fall several points. Complete Lunar Tunes!”

 

The image was assembled starting from a moon and a late night city at Openclipart.