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.
Chuck says:
Look, I don’t mind sitting through a big, dumb popcorn movie every once in a while, but I draw the line when they’re outright bad and stupid. What’s the difference, you may ask? Well, Armageddon and Con Air fall in the former category – yes, we know the premise of each is ridiculous, but there’s a sense of fun about them letting us know those who made the movies are in on the joke too.
Such is not the case with Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall. A truly inane movie, it sacrifices fun in its vain attempt to provide something profound a la 2001: A Space Odyssey. It posits that the moon is actually a hollow structure created by an alien race who were in fact our ancestors. Heady stuff…except it isn’t in Emmerich’s hands, who’s always been far more interested in blowing things up, which he does with a regularity you can set your watch by. Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson are lost as the astronauts trying to push the moon back into orbit, it taking a wobbly turn the source of all the destruction. Without question, Moonfall’s a disaster, but not in the way Emmerich intended.
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