Saturday, September 10, 2022
Moonfall
A disgraced astronaut (Patrick Wilson), a NASA administrator (Halle Berry), & a conspiracy theorist make a last ditch effort to save the planet in this “X-files” Chicken Little the-sky-is-falling story. Director/writer Roland Emmerich has dreamt up fairly ludicrous global disaster concept as a backdrop for some normal family drama situation: divorced parents with a troubled teen. This sci-fi extravaganza spectacle is hard to take seriously with its cheesy dialogue & out-of-this-world premise that seems to get sillier & more outrageous by the minute. However, it you crave over-the-top calamities & can suspend common sense for a couple of hours, you may get a kick out of the wild ride adventure.
Alien gives it 2½ “megastructure” stars out of 4.
