<p><em>Moonfall</em> is a disaster epic by director Roland Emmerich. Emmerich&#8217;s work includes <em>Independence Day, Godzilla</em> (the terrible 1990s American version), and <em>The Day After Tomorrow</em>. Based on his resume, you should have an idea of what to expect from this sci-fi blockbuster.</p>
<p>Because, yes, the premise of the moon slamming into the Earth is dumb. It is very, very dumb. It&#8217;s also so dumb that it&#8217;s absolutely hilarious.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center">The Moon is Falling!</h2>
<p>This is a picture that requires a ludicrously high level of disbelief to accept the very story being told. The moon is thrown off its orbit and is headed directly towards Earth. Perhaps it&#8217;s not a moon at all but rather a mega-structure of alien origin! And in an Emmerich movie, it very much is that!</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s ridiculous. Yes, it&#8217;s a setup for a lot of big and loud sequences of explosions and action in space. Does that make it a bad movie? Well, that all depends on how numb you&#8217;ve grown to the Emmerich formula.</p>
<p>It should be noted that the truth about the moon is relayed by <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000661/">Donald Sutherland</a>. If you&#8217;re familiar with the actor, you pretty much know the role he plays. If you don&#8217;t, think of every film you&#8217;ve ever seen him in and why he is usually present, especially in action-oriented pictures.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center">The Usual Tropes</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with Emmerich-style characters, the ensemble on display will be pretty par for the course. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933940/">Patrick Wilson</a> plays a disgraced astronaut who swore he saw an alien creature kill his partner on a space mission. He has since struggled with divorce and trying to keep his teenage son out of jail.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000932/">Halle Berry</a> plays a NASA director who isn&#8217;t believed by the brass until it&#8217;s too late. She is also divorced but has a son who is more adorable. He asks such cute and innocent questions during this tough time as &#8220;Are we all going to die?&#8221;</p>
<p>And then there&#8217;s <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4263213/">John Bradley</a> as the loser conspiracy theorist who is proven right. He&#8217;s struggled with both work and social acceptance but is finally able to become a hero. Of course, he&#8217;ll still be awkward about it and make everything weird by mentioning his bodily functions when suiting up for the big mission to the stars.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center">Overblown Special Effects</h2>
<p>The film itself is a laugh riot for how overblown it becomes. As the moon draws closer, the destruction mounts higher. Cities flood, buildings topple, gravity lessens, and oxygen leaves the planet. This leads to a lot of warped fast-and-loose disaster sequences, where space shuttles take off underwater and cars try to outrun the moon&#8217;s gravity distortion.</p>
<p>These scenes are intense, sure, but also incredibly laughable for how they&#8217;re staged. The wild nature of how physics is treated is enough to make any science professor cackle at the ridiculousness of it all. It&#8217;s also just a lot of fun watching Emmerich once more turn the Earth into a playground of destruction on a grand scale.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center">The Silly Twist</h2>
<p><em>Moonfall</em> comes with an incredibly silly twist that I&#8217;m tempted not to reveal despite how much the trailers have already spoiled. What I will say is that it involves aliens, artificial intelligence, and lots of fancy technology encased within the moon. Watching it all unfold is such a hoot!</p>
<p>I think what I love most is that all the exposition for why the moon is the way it is comes delivered from a child hologram. There&#8217;s something about making such a laughable third-act twist delivered by a kid that much more enduring. It feels like your offspring trying to spin a tale and make it up as they go along, making last-minute reveals and surprises.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center">It&#8217;s All Silly</h2>
<p>There&#8217;s a very reassuring moment in such a movie that lets you know it&#8217;s not so much trying to make you laugh. In two scenes, John Bradley will praise Elon Musk and a disapproving groan washed over the theater. That&#8217;s a moment of comedy that fell so flat on its face.</p>
<p>But think about it! If that scene failed, how many other scenes of great thrills do you think failed at being nail-biters instead of humorous? It&#8217;s that little reassurance that makes me love this trainwreck of a disaster picture all the more.</p>
<p>Is it a guilty pleasure? That all depends on your definition and I don&#8217;t exactly consider that makes me enjoy myself a guilty experience. I had some of the biggest laughs in the theater at such absurdity and I hope there&#8217;s a midnight screening of this movie in the future for everyone else to share in the hilarity again.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center">Conclusion: <em>Moonfall</em></h2>
<p><em>Moonfall</em> is a very, very, very, very dumb and silly movie. And I love it! It&#8217;s an uproarious, big-budget, overblown, poorly-acted, ridiculously-staged sci-fi disaster flick that is perfect for popcorn chomping.</p>
<p>The cries of the movie being stupid are irrelevant! If a film like this can make me belly-laugh hard and nearly fall out of my seat, that&#8217;s a winning formula in my book. What a fun Emmerich movie, proving that the director still has the right stuff to make the right movie that hits all the sweet spots of his filmmaking madness.</p>
<p><em><strong>Did you see </strong></em><strong>Moonfall </strong><em><strong>in the theater? Was it absurd enough to be a comedy? How does it stack up next to other sci-fi films such as </strong></em><a href="https://bagogames.com/the-matrix-resurrections-review-a-perfectly-meta-sequel/"><strong>The Matrix Resurrections</strong></a><em><strong>? Let us know in the comments below.</strong></em></p>
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Moonfall Review – Over-The-Top Disaster At Its Most Absurd
Big, dumb, and full of fun movie about the moon's love affair with Earth.
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