Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
"Fuck the moon."
Matthew Brady - wrote on 05/30/2022
"This planet has suffered five extinctions. This is going to be the sixth."
So, 'Moonfall' is a movie.
I watched this back in February in 4DX (more of that in a bit), and the reason for the long delay was due to a busy schedule with personal stuff, but better late than never.
Anyhow,
'Moonfall' is yet another one of Roland Emmerich's "end of the world" movies, and it follows the same familiar as the rest.
Alright, I will get straight to it, the movie is stupid, like really stupid, and I expected that going in and enjoyed it for what it was. Some of the performances range from decent to horrendous, there is a father and son subplot that I did not care for, and at times it was so transparent that some scenes were on a sound stage. The ending is so terrible and ridiculous …
Rating of
2/4
I'm Over This Moon
Chris Kavan - wrote on 04/27/2022
Roland Emmerich has made a career out of destroying the world. Aliens, climate change, tectonic shifts - pick your poison and watch the world burn. Moonfall is just another notch on his belt and, frankly, the most ridiculous premise yet.
Early on we watch astronauts Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) and Alan Marcus (Frank Fiola) working on a satellite under the command of Jocinda Fowler (Halle Berry) - when things go wrong following the appearance of a shifting cloud of something. Marcus is thrown to drift in space and Harper, with little help from Fowler (who was knocked out) is disgraced for his fantastical version of events.
Fast forward years later where NASA is made aware that the moon's orbit is changing - not only that, be in a scant amount of time it will crash into the Earth, …
