Moonfall (\N)
- N Adult:
- PG-13 Rated:
- IMDB link IMDB:
- 5.2 /10.0 IMDB Rating:
- 2022-02-04 DatePublished:
- 2018-09-07 Added:
- Spenser Cohen, Harald Kloser, Writer:
- Roland Emmerich, Director:
- Producer:
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Trailer:
If you take parts of 20 other movies and mash them together
I'm a sci-fi junkie and I can enjoy a stupid, mindless action flick. I still find Armageddon highly entertaining to this day. I'm the kind of person who loves these kinds of movies. Except when they're complete trash like this one.
This movie is terrible and has almost no redeeming qualities. The only thing I mildly enjoyed was some cool-looking scenes of destruction. Even the space stuff, which is normally an automatic plus for me, added nothing. Maybe it's missing the feel of space that good directors like Christopher Nolan are able to capture. Or maybe it's because I didn't care about the story or the characters even a tiny bit.
Speaking of characters... what characters? They're all cardboard cutouts. You have zero investment in any of them. They spew lines of atrocious dialogue that sound like they were written by a computer program.
While watching this, I kept noticing different things copied from various movies. This is fine if the movie is well-made, or if the copying is just for a portion of the movie. But this movie is poorly-made, and the copying seems to make up the entire thing.
And while each of the movies it stole from likely delved deep into that concept, this movie just throws it in there as an afterthought. There are so many useless side plots. These are things that could have worked if they narrowed it down and focused on a couple.
This movie is really dumb. I kept trying to forgive the flaws and give it a chance, but less than halfway through I started laughing at the stupidity. I had to make sure I didn't laugh too loud in case someone was enjoying it somehow.
Seriously, I can't emphasize how dumb this movie is. Throughout. And I don't just mean the science and lack of believability, I can get past that. But very simple things like, for example, when a character tells another, "You're the only one who believed me." And I think to myself, "Wait... WHAT??? He didn't believe you and had security escort you off the premises." The movie is jam-packed with this type of nonsense.
In the end, if you can't, at the very least, deliver entertaining mayhem, then you have failed. (1 viewing, opening night 2/3/2022)
Epicness of glorious proportions
I don't understand the hate besides some scenes with some poor dialogue the movie is beyond awesome I would void out anything bad about it. It reminded me of Day After Tomorrow and 2012 but better and I crave anything scientific/alien related which I absolutely love all that! The movie deserves better it's so much fun, beautiful, great concept, has solid comedy, and exciting bits that you wouldn't want to miss. Glad I saw in IMAX format made everything a lot better don't know what will happen to the ratings or if there will be a handful that appreciate the film but I highly recommend it!
Big Bang Style
If you watch a disaster movie made by Roland Emmerich you get what you expect: big explosions, fine work by the special departments and a rather simple story with forgettable characters. Moonfall is no exception - get your coke and pop-corn, lay back and enjoy the show. But in the case you don't like that kind of big screen disaster movies, don't bother.
Better watch the brilliant "Dont Look Up" instead, because "Moonfall" is storyline silliness to the max (in a very negative way)
Wow. But in a bad way. First off, how did they think they were gonna sell tickets for this movie, while only 2 months ago, the brilliant "Dont Look Up" was released, with a similar "end of the earth" plot? Better watch the brilliant AND funny "Dont Look Up" movie, instead of this completely sillly garbage.
The bad nr 1: this story is so completely incomprehensible stupid that characters in the movie are explaining the INCOMPREHENSIBLE and SILLY storyline to each other! Pfff...get outa here....
The bad nr 2: these actors once were reasonably good actors, but they are now over the hill. They are now entering B-movie territory with Moonfall, which as a movie is NOT thrilling, NOT funny, NOT dramatic. What's left?
The bad nr 3: director Roland Emmerich once (ONCE LONG LONG AGO) was a succesful blockbuster movie director during the nineties. Back then Roland Emmerich's CGI effects were totally new to the worldwide cinema audiences and quite impressive to watch and although some CGI scenes now still do kinda impress a bit in this movie, most of this CGI world looks quite cheap and fake. I really dont like it when there is lack of realism in scifi movies.
Not any good at all? I honestly cant think of any, because everything is below average. I guess that the actors starring in it, will want to forget as quickly as possible that they ever took part in this cheap looking rubbish...
Independence Moonmargeddon
Emmerich - who you gonna hire when it comes to a movie of this kind and calibre? I mean one is almost tempted to say that he is doing one thing in different forms/movies. There are elements from so many other movies here. Be it in the characters or the themes of the movie. The important question though is: can you suspend your disbelief? And I don't mean just a little! I am talking about all the way here.
And if you've done that, all the cliches come out and they will make you cringe. The characters feel like they have a story put upon them. You'll either find certain things gullible or plain offensive to your taste buds. The special effects are top notch, the dialog not so much. Many moments that feel ... lame quite frankly. The whole patriotism thing is to be expected - but that doesn't make it any better either. Michael Pena feels underused - I don't hate him - which may be just enough I reckon (pun intended).
Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry are the ones that save the day (no pun intended). John Bradley may be the wild card - but he also is hit and miss. His character that is, he is trying his best I'd say. Just never critisize the conspiracy guy from Godzilla versus Kong ever again, if you actually love this character right here.
Nothing more to say here other than it is quite rich, that Emmerich critisizes Star Wars and the MCU when he is unable to make a coherent Blockbuster of his own, that at times make Fast and Furious look like it's legit and realistic ... I know, right? But as you can see in my rating, I didn't mind too much ... or rather I'm being "kind" again - something I have been accused of a lot anyway.