Moonfall (2022)

The orbit of the moon changes and it is on a collusion course to Earth. It is up to a disgraced ex astronaut (Patrick Wilson), the director of NASA (Halle Berry) and a conspiracy theorist (John Bradley) to save the world! Directed by Roland Emmerich, this is one of the most expensive independent movies ever made ($140,000,000). The movie is yet another of Emmerich's CGI laden sci-fi disaster movies (INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW) which is what he's best at. When he tries to get serious (like the abominable ANONYMOUS), he stumbles. He stumbles here too. This is a dumb movie which spends so much money and time on the special effects that there's nothing left for the humans except cliches and stereotypes. In its own way, it's enjoyable in the way bad movies (and make no mistake about it, this one is bad) are. But this movie is tired. Seeing cities being wiped out by CGI tsunamis and earthquakes is so been there, done that. Emmerich makes a loser nerd (Bailey) the hero of the piece because that's the demographics that would be the market for a film like this. The expensive but obvious CGI effects had me feeling like I was stuck inside a video game. Still, it's sad to see Halle Berry's career sink to this level. Emmerich must have expected a big hit (it flopped) because the ending is a sure set up for a sequel. With Donald Sutherland, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor and Carolina Bartczak.