Moonplzfall.
Tldr: a disaster film that'll have you rooting for the disaster.
1 star because of one reason.
The film has decent cgi and practical effects.
Otherwise, its a fairly big budget, epic film that is a bat shit mess.
There's some good, recognizable actors and a bunch of whoever's. Actually there's a lot of whoever's that play somewhat important roles that are terribly anemic playing those roles.
That in and of itself really makes it hard to care about what's going on.
What's going on is the potential end of life on earth, the story itself is an epic one at over two hours long, and yet 45 minutes in and I'm scrolling away to read reviews of this hot mess.
I love quality <- key word, sci fi.
I love a well done disaster film.
Moonfall is like a tampered Reese's candy, instead of chocolate and peanut butter, you get bum shit and peanut butter, all wrapped up like its normal.
When i saw this was a Lionsgate film, I went in with high hopes. At the 30 min mark I could see the story was already going all over the place like a leaky Dollar Tree balloon.
How can you care about a character when their whole life is just shoved in front of you like a cheap microwave dinner ?
Haille Barry *sic - too lazy to even know if Im spelling her name right is B O R I N G.
Her role ? A washed up, divorced astronaut, remarried to Mr. Pena, who clearly didnt want to be in the film.
There's the dumb teen son, rebelling due to lack of a solid father figure, cuz his guilt ridden alcoholic, can't pay rent, formerly glorious, has been father ( because all men are like this according to Hollywood) spends his life, sorrowing over his astronaut buddy who went whooshing off into space, never to be seen again.
The tropes are dumb, played out and tired.
Samwell Tarly has two jobs, a janitor at some kind of space computer place & and at a burger joint, yet he's genius enough to have computers running some impressive looking programs doing who knows what calculations to tell him the moon is off orbit ? .. i think. Oh and his moms got Alzheimer's.
Ever seen an AI painting of a few knights on horseback ? Where some horses have 3 or 5 legs and the 1 armed knights have lances that look like push brooms ? In the distance there's maybe a gas station...
Did AI help write this script ?
This could have been a GREAT film but its not. It's literally Sci Fi channel level of entertainment.
I wondered why this film slipped past my radar, now i know why, as i sit at the 45 min mark, debating whether or not to finish it.