Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson deliver a visually stunning disaster movie that is out of this world with Moonfall.
The world stands on the brink of annihilation when a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling toward a collision course with Earth. With only weeks before impact, NASA executive Jocinda “Jo” Fowler (Halle Berry) teams up with a man (Patrick Wilson) from her past and a conspiracy theorist for an impossible mission into space to save humanity.
While some people may look up at the moon and admire its shrinking beauty, director Roland Emmerich sees a huge floating orb that might have been built by aliens. Viewers may never look up at the moon the same again after watching his latest film Moonfall. Emmerich’s latest film is absolutely bonkers, a sci-fi, action-and-disaster thriller that gets crazier by the minute.
Moonfall hits all the right spots of a traditional popcorn sci-fi film, the trigger, happy military officers, a little too ready with their nukes, a rag-tag team of heroes with their on the spot workarounds, mathematical calculations on the fly, and the typical declarations like “I didnt come this far to quit now!” and “I want you to have a world to grow up in.”
In this film, Emmerich steps up his game by making the moon into a menace and the director definitely delivers. As it spins closer, the moon’s gravitational pull creates “gravity waves” resulting in buildings being yanked up and global tsunamis and other catastrophes.
This results in tensions rising between our heroes. Wilson is an ex-astronaut who is broke, divorced, and is unfairly fired by NASA. Berry’s character worries about her young son and tries to reason with her ex-husband. These two are always fun to watch and this movie is no exception. And, oddly enough, Donald Sutherland has a cameo in this film.
Moonfall has a slow start to it, but once it gets going things get absolutely trippy in the third act. Logic is completely abandoned at this point and I won’t say much else except that everything we thought we knew about the universe has gone out the window. And while our heroes are in space trying to save Earth, things on the ground has lots of messy human stuff like looting, car chases, and gunfire. There is so much disaster going on in this film that it almost makes our little national health crisis these days look small and manageable.
Overall, Moonfall is a brain-twisting, popcorn-eating mega-blast that will hopefully take our attention away from the real world for just a few hours.
Moonfall is now playing in theaters.
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