Moonfall

Moonfall

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.

  • Released: 2022-02-03
  • Runtime: 130 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure
  • Stars: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, Donald Sutherland, Maxim Roy, Stephen Bogaert, Azriel Dalman, Zayn Maloney, Achilles Montes-Vamvas, Ava Weiss, Kelly Reilly, Hazel Nugent, Chris Sandiford, Jonathan Silver, Ryan Bommarito, Kathleen Fee, Frank Schorpion, Sebastian Pigott, Jaa Smith-Johnson, Adam LeBlanc, Katy Breier, Kyle Gatehouse, Tyrone Benskin, Josh Cruddas, Gerardo Lo Dico, Krista Marchand
  • Director: Roland Emmerich
 Comments
  • GiggleGamesAustralia - 30 May 2024
    There should be penalties for those responsible for this
    Hello Netflix - really? You went woth this?

    In Australia, we have a game called Rugby League, when a player commits an indiscretion, they are sent to the sin bin - being 10 minutes off the field and a player cannot replace the naughty offender.

    Roland Emmerich needs the movie equivalent for this obscenity. A 2 year break I'm thinking.

    Massive warning sign in the opening scenes when the crew on the Endeavour Space shuttle are participating in small talk and irrelevant trivia while attending to their technical duties on tether out in space with multi billion dollar equipment. Never so early has a movie on Netflix jumped the shark so quickly for me.

    Halle Berry has taken on the challenge to beat Catwoman's performance, Patrick Wilson's character is even more annoying than Denis Quaid's father figure in Day After Tomorrow (see what I did there - thanks Roland), when he admonishes a judge for not giving bail to a brat of a son and the worst courtroom scene since Night Court - and that was comedic genius.

    Every character is a cliche of itself and the special effect of a tidal surge looks like it was shot in my shower.

    Then the big scream came from my already twitching lungs, Donald Sutherland makes an appearance. Suddenly JFK, The Firm and a little bit of Austin Powers flash into my mind and I may not sleep tonight as a result.

    The script seems to have been written by the first Chat GPT AI programme that was too bad to release, as the filters entered were 'Please add as many movie cliches as possible', and Moonfall was created. I would like someone to please interview every actor in this film in a significant role for a please explain, and then, you know it - the sin bin for them all.

    Woeful.
  • azathothpwiggins - 24 March 2024
    Lunacy...
    MOONFALL is another gargantuan, would-be blockbuster from Director Roland Emmerich. It stars Hale Berry and Patrick Wilson as astronauts who experience a mysterious, tragic anomaly in space. Years later, they must reunite, along with a fast food worker (John Bradley) who has foreseen a coming global catastrophe.

    Much like he did with ID4, Mr. Emmerich manages to condense about 15 hours worth of movie into 130 minutes. Things happen so quickly that it's dizzying. By the time we say, "Hey wait a minute! I don't think that's even remotely possible!", we're several explosive scenes behind.

    As modern sci-fi goes, it's certainly not boring, but it does make your head ring like a gong after awhile. Absurd? Yes. Overblown? Absolutely. The finale is a spectacle so jaw-droppingly preposterous, that only Mr. Emmerich could have created it. To be fair, this film is best enjoyed in the theater. This is why God invented popcorn...
  • andy-00846 - 17 February 2024
    I wanted to laugh but....
    This was on TV so I thought I would watch for a laugh. I knew it was bad so I was looking forward to a "so bad it's good" evening of chuckles and corny one liners. I was thinking Fast and Furious meets Armageddon. I should have thought 10 year old's space fantasy meets brain lobotomy.

    My goodness this is bad film. I mean *really* bad. I've seen thunderbirds episodes with better plot development. I've watch nativity plays with more earnest acting. And I've seen local car garage adverts with better directing.

    You would have to be really desperate to watch this but if you find yourself with a spare couple of hours when this comes on WATCH SOMETHING ELSE.
  • jacquiiparker - 2 January 2023
    Give this movie a go
    I don't like space movies, Sci-fi, Armageddon type of movie at all.

    This movie just happened to be starting at the right time on foxtel, had no plans on watching it and thought it was pretty crappy for the first 15 mins. Next thing I know I have the surround sound blasting and the two hour movie was finished.

    I actually really enjoyed it, absolutely without a doubt the special effects made it. I would certainly watch it again, and this is coming from a person that couldn't force herself into watching Bruce Willis' Armageddon lol

    I say turn up the volume and give this movie a go, it's not as bad as you may have heard or read.
  • liaman_toei - 27 December 2022
    Good sci-fiction.
    Good sci -fiction movie.many destru tion ,advance idea that some may not real in our present knowing of human year 2022 but this is movie.

    Unpredict by generally human-brain level.

    Advance by reality and that is movie.

    Watching and thinking.

    Don't guide by the rating. Watch this and You'll know the director want to show you.

    If you are the advance life theory ,love the advance of universe theory ,and do not care the reality life of the world just watch and take time of this movie.

    Good CG for destruction of the world but you may see some non make sensnse ,a little ,dont care it because it just a movie.
  • casualathlete - 17 December 2022
    It's awful. Don't waste your time.
    Typical American disaster movie schlock. I gave 2 stars because the first half an hour is just about bearable. After that it settles into the typical disaster movie pattern. The world is at risk. America is the only country with a plan to save it apparently. The plan....get guns and shoot at it. Nuke it. Blow it up. They really don't learn do they? The film got more and more ridiculous as it went on. I wouldn't be surprised if Michael Pena asked for his character to die just so he didn't have to be in it anymore. Save your time and do something more worthwhile instead of watching this. I can't believe there are people out there spending hundreds of millions of dollars making such bad films.
  • namarcus - 4 December 2022
    Plagiarism
    Borrows directly from the fantastic short story The Invincible (Niezwyciezony) published in the year 1964 by Stanislav Lem, without giving any credit, though that might not be the worst thing it does to insult the legendary Sci-Fi author.

    There is no redeeming feature to this film other than it paying an unacknowledged debt to Lem. It's almost as if they took his premise of a great story and fed it into an AI that writes mechanical sci-if blockbusters.

    The original story would indeed make a great and much better movie - something perhaps on the lines of Martian meets Enterprise. If I were the estate holder of Lem, I'd sue the producers for IP theft.
  • tinylilone - 21 November 2022
    Suspend ALL judgement & enjoy the ride!
    Don't come at this movie with snobbish film constructs, expectations and judgements. It's NOT THAT KIND OF MOVIE. It's a disaster movie. It's supposed to be totally far fetched, ridiculous, implausible and unbelievable. And formulaic like a 5 paragraph essay, with a beginning, three middles and an end! All of those elements are what make it fun & terrifying. If you can't have fun with it then I'm thinking this is not the movie for you. It is a bit longer than most, at a running time of over 2 hours, but it is entertaining with some great special effects & action sequences. It's also suitable for the whole family, without being a kid film. Enjoy it for what it is-a good, old fashioned, fun blockbuster.
  • bscholl-18043 - 13 November 2022
    Saved only by the hotness of Halle Berry
    Written by a 12 year old armed with a rudimentary knowledge of physics, a fondness for 1980's action movies and a need to solve family interpersonal relationships, this movie is saved only by the hotness of Halle Berry. And some cool special effects. I encourage viewers to watch Battle Beyond the Stars for a slightly better experience.

    The corrolary here would be modern society seeking the assistance of aboriginal, undiscovered and illiterate South American tribesman, to solve an issue with DNS routing of the internet.

    The shout-out to Clarke's Rendevous With Rama is cool. Ditto with Halo, Star Treks: TNG "The Chase", and The Day The Earth Stood Still.

    Cellphone service remaining intact during a worldwide power disruption coupled with a high density meteor strike, however, is unforgiveable.