
San Francisco Chronicle
Just when you think “Moonfall” can’t redeem itself, it takes a turn and ends well. The last 20 minutes deliver.
Full reviewThe moon is falling in the latest disaster film from director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day), starring Halle Berry and Donald Sutherland alongside Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring), Michael Peña (Ant-Man) and Charlie Plummer (Words on Bathroom Walls).
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 against all odds, a ragtag team launches an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love and risking everything to land on the lunar surface and save our planet from annihilation.
LessJust when you think “Moonfall” can’t redeem itself, it takes a turn and ends well. The last 20 minutes deliver.
Full reviewEven if the hit-and-miss special effects were more consistent, the sheer silliness would make it impossible to take the threat of global destruction seriously even for a moment.
Full reviewMoonfall becomes a mixture of Emmerichs usual clichs that are starting to show their age...
Full reviewSure, “Moonfall” is all kinds of stupid, but... I had a blast, and would gladly saddle up for a second viewing.
Full reviewRoland Emmerich ends the world yet again with his latest silly, enjoyable sci-fi epic.
Full reviewFor the director Roland Emmerich, who treats the planet to potentially life-ending cataclysms with the regularity of dental checkups, it’s not much new under the sun.
Full reviewFilled with unintentional humor, the film seems inevitably destined for exposure on a future incarnation of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Full reviewThe result is bizarre and by many measures terrible. It is also almost certainly the exact film its director wanted to make. A hopeful comeback, it does not lack the wow factor.
Full reviewExpect CG carnage, pseudoscience, and a lot of characters saying “everybody hold on!!”
It’s exactly what you expect, if perhaps not quite as earth-shattering as maybe one would hope.
Moonfall is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.
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