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2022
12A
Director: Roland Emmerich.
Starring: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Charlie Plummer, Michael Pena, Carolina Bartczak, Donald Sutherland, etc.
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, a NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving everyone. But only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist KC Houseman believer her. This movie was just a complete mess.
The film did have strong cinematography. The set up was good and the characters were likeable. With some interesting elements and ideas that were introduced and explored. Some of the action was entertaining and the score was solid.
However, the pacing was extremely rushed and terrible, never allowing anything to fully process or develop properly. The structure of the movie was a complete mess and all over the place. There was countless inconsistencies with the logic that were just too ridiculous. The characters and the plot itself were very generic. I didn't connect with any of the characters. The script was very bad and the dialogue felt very recycled and corny, like it was supposed to be released 20 years ago. The characters lacked chemistry with each other, perhaps due to the poor writing. The CGI in parts was surprisingly bad considering the high budget, the obvious green screen was often very distracting. There was either inconsistent or underwhelming action. It was tonally inconsistent and felt like 3 different movies, and the final act, despite introducing some interesting ideas was a mess and it failed with its execution.
Overall, Moonfall has brief moments of entertainment, great visuals and Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry try their best. But this movie was poorly written, inconsistent and messy. This film didn't have a clue what it wanted to be and it just turned into a poorly executed disaster movie that failed on all levels.
Overall Score 32/100.
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I actually saw this on Thursday but damn this semester is kicking my ass. But I’ve found some time to review this. I’m hoping to watch a few things to review later tonight as well. So with Moonfall, all I have to say is, you saw the trailer and still decided to go see this, you’ve lost the ability to complain about how weird it gets. Whatever conclusions you drew from the trailer, trash them, it gets so much crazier. I’m a sucker for a good end of the world movie, I find them very fun. This one is actually a little light on the destruction though, unless you prefer to see mountains get destroyed instead of cities lower your excitement for that. The one city we see get ruined on a massive scale is one of the coolest I’ve ever seen though. Halle Berry is pretty great here and gets far more of the story then I was expecting. Patrick Wilson plays a decent fallen from grace astronaut dealing with past trauma, but I think he could have sold it better. But he has fantastic screen chemistry with John Bradley. Bradley played one of my favorite GoT characters and I’m so excited to see that he’s in two movies in back to back weeks. I loved him here so much and I’m so excited to see him in Marry Me on Thursday. I had no idea Michael Peña was going to be in this and he delivers a fantastic performance in a very short amount of time. Donald Sutherland is quite literally in a single scene that’s not very long. I have no idea why they used him for it. Charlie Plummer, Yu Wenwen, Kelly Reilly, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, Chris Sandiford, Jonathan Silver, and Stephen Bogaert are alright, none of them get a whole lot of screen time other than Plummer but they all play characters you come to care a bit about. Which is what’s very different about this movie. Most end of the world movies give you a bunch of characters that take away from the action that you couldn’t care for at all. But this gives characters that you do actually care for and want to see make it out to the end. This movie looks great on IMAX and just adds to the whole experience. Some of the VFX looks a little off in some parts but not enough to take away too much from the overall enjoyment of the movie. 7/10. -Tyler.
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