Moonfall

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Moonfall: Movie Clip - Hang On

Moonfall: Movie Clip - Hang On

CLIP 0:34 Moonfall: Opening Scene in Lego

Moonfall: Opening Scene in Lego

CLIP 1:42 Moonfall: Movie Clip - You Could Have Just Turned it Off

Moonfall: Movie Clip - You Could Have Just Turned it Off

CLIP 1:02 Moonfall: Movie Clip - We’re Gonna Need A Megastructurist

Moonfall: Movie Clip - We’re Gonna Need A Megastructurist

CLIP 0:53 Moonfall: Movie Clip - Inside the Moon

Moonfall: Movie Clip - Inside the Moon

CLIP 0:42 Moonfall: Featurette - NASA

Moonfall: Featurette - NASA

FEATURETTE 1:30 Moonfall: Exclusive Trailer - 'Shocking Discovery'

Moonfall: Exclusive Trailer - 'Shocking Discovery'

TRAILER 2:16 Moonfall: First 5 Minutes - Exclusive

Moonfall: First 5 Minutes - Exclusive

CLIP 4:48 Moonfall: Teaser Trailer 2

Moonfall: Teaser Trailer 2

TRAILER 2:12 Moonfall: Teaser Trailer

Moonfall: Teaser Trailer

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Cast & Crew

Halle Berry

Jocinda Fowler

Patrick Wilson

Brian Harper

John Bradley

KC Houseman

Michael Peña

Tom Lopez

Charlie Plummer

Sonny Harper

Kelly Yu

Michelle

Eme Ikwuakor

Doug Davidson

Carolina Bartczak

Brenda Lopez

Donald Sutherland

Holdenfield

Maxim Roy

Captain Gabriella Auclair

Zayn Maloney

Jimmy

Stephen Bogaert

NASA Director Albert Hutchings

Azriel Dalman

Sonny Child

Ava Weiss

Nikki Lopez

Hazel Nugent

Lauren Lopez

Roland Emmerich

Director

Roland Emmerich

Screenwriter

Harald Kloser

Screenwriter

Spenser Cohen

Screenwriter

Harald Kloser

Producer

Roland Emmerich

Producer

Alastair Burlingham

Executive Producer

Spenser Cohen

Executive Producer

Ute Emmerich

Executive Producer

Carsten H.W. Lorenz

Executive Producer

Robby Baumgartner

Cinematographer

Adam Wolfe

Film Editing

Ryan Stevens Harris

Film Editing

Thomas Wander

Original Music

Harald Kloser

Original Music

Kirk M. Petruccelli

Production Design

Vincent Aird

Art Director

Suzanne Cloutier

Set Decoration

Mario Davignon

Costume Design

John Papsidera

Casting

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Critic Reviews for Moonfall

Audience Reviews for Moonfall

• Jun 14, 2022

  Sort of a greatest hits collection from Emmerich (The movie is filled with repeated beats and characters from his previous movies, i.e. the crackpot who was right the whole time, the gleeful destruction of cities, etc.) but the problem is that it kind of runs out of steam at the exact point it should get more exciting.
  

  Super Reviewer
• Jun 01, 2022

  When you get past the typical disaster movie cliches, some mediocre writing, and some major suspension of disbeliefs, you're left with a fun scifi story punctuated by exciting adventure sequences.
  

  Super Reviewer
• Apr 08, 2022

  Moonfall looks like the big, schlocky sci-fi disaster movie that Judd Apatow would be satirizing with The Bubble. It's a Roland Emmerich disaster movie where he does exactly what Roland Emmerich does best: expansive scenes of cataclysmic destruction on the biggest scale possible. It was believed by industry watchers that Moonfall would be the kind of epic that people would go back to the movies to experience, watching the scale of destruction on the biggest screen and cheering along. It didn't work out that way and Moonfall reportedly will lose over a hundred million dollars for its investors. It seemed like a smart bet as disaster movies have performed well for Emmerich, like 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow. In times of struggle, human beings enjoy fantasies about surviving fantastic odds, or at least that was the established way of thinking. After two years of life during COVID-19, maybe our idea of sci-fi escapism isn't quite what it used to be. I watched Moonfall with general indifference. It felt like a mediocre hodgepodge of other Emmerich disaster movies and veered into campy nonsense at many points. It's the kind of movie that demands you shut off your brain and just go along with the scientific gobbledygook, especially once the moon begins making Earth's gravity go all haywire. At that point the movie becomes an inconsistent video game with its liberal use of physics. It doesn't seem like it matters, but watching characters do Super Mario Brother-level jumps has a fun appeal as well as being impossibly goofy. One character says, "The moon can't do these things," and another character waves away that pertinent thought and says, almost directly to the audience, "Yeah, but this isn't a normal moon, so forget everything." The special effects are also quite hit or miss. Plenty of the larger effects are quite awe-inspiring and suitably terrifying in depicting an awesome reality, and then others look like they didn't quite have enough money when it came time to render. Some of the CGI reminded me of moments from 2008's Torque, where the high-speed backgrounds resembled badly composited video game texture blurs. If your movie is going to exist primarily in a junk food realm, then you need to either have as minimal distractions as possible to rip you from the believability of this world, or you simply need to veer into it and accept that the instability and chaos will be part of the general appeal. Provide the goods, and Moonfall just doesn't. The movie also takes an inordinate amount of time to get back to space after a prologue, almost halfway through its two hours. This first half stalls with setting up so many characters to follow that you simply won't care about. I didn't care what happened to anyone back on Earth. When the rednecks found our party (again!) in a petty car chase, I literally laughed out loud. The alien/moon mythology is also convoluted and vague enough to simply apply a good versus evil designation for technology, and the big sacrifice doesn't feel so big when you find that character to be annoying for the duration of their grating screen time. It's another movie tipping you off about a possible linked sequel and one that appears more appetizing than the film we just witnessed (just like Emmerich's 2016 Independence Day sequel). In short, Moonfall is a bit of a mess, a mess I can imagine others enjoying and laughing with, but definitely one of the lower outputs in Emmerich's long career of destroying global landmarks and formerly pristine vistas. I found Moonfall and The Bubble to both be poor examples of what Hollywood thinks audiences will desire as escapism in the wake of COVID-19 disrupting routines and lives. Each of the movies is disappointing because it doesn't fulfill what it promises. The Bubble has a bunch of combustible characters in a combustible scenario and squanders its time with weak satirical gags and lazy characterization. Moonfall wants to be the big, fun epic of Emmerich's past, but it takes its sweet indulgent time with uninteresting characters, convoluted and underwritten lore, and a plot that would have been more entertaining had it better embraced the absurdity of its implications. You may likely have an enjoyable time watching either movie, and they're almost the same length too, but I found both to be middling examples of Hollywood's attempt to try and give the people what they think they want and missing the entertainment mark. Nate's Grade: C+
  

  nathan z Super Reviewer