1) Man what a bummer. I had high hopes for this movie, MOONFALL. I didn't expect some major high-budget action flick, but with the cast and director, I did expect some solid entertainment ahead of thew #Flames game tonight. It wasn't solid, and the entertainment was hit-and-miss. 
2) The movie stars Halle Barry, Patrick Wilson, Michael Pena, and John Bradley (Samwell Tarley from Game of Thrones) and directed by Roland Emmerich. With these people leading the way, one would expect a good popcorn movie. So much of it came close to that but the entire thing
3) failed, thanks to some bad and weak writing in the script, and some of the direction was definitely questionable. That's unfortunate because this story idea had such incredible potential:
The moon is hollow. Not only that, it was built "billions of years ago" by aliens, who
The moon is hollow. Not only that, it was built "billions of years ago" by aliens, who
4) turn out to be our progenitors from the other side of the galaxy. Our "ancestors", who seeded the Earth they created(!) with their DNA, eventually resulting in us.
The moon starts to fall from orbit and is headed towards an impact with Earth. It's predicted to break apart, but
The moon starts to fall from orbit and is headed towards an impact with Earth. It's predicted to break apart, but
5) never does(!). It then enters the stratosphere(!!) and the U.S. government has authorized launching ALL of its nuclear arsenal at the moon (IN THE ATMOSPHERE) to break it apart and maybe save Earth... This is where the astronauts - played by Berry and Wilson - come in, along
6) with a janitor(?)/drive-thru worker(?)/really smart slacker/lazy guy who steal the last working shuttle in order to correct things, fix the moon and get it back into orbit. Um... OK....
Thing is if this had been written well, directed better and steered more coherently, it
Thing is if this had been written well, directed better and steered more coherently, it
could have been that Independence Day-meets-Armageddon-meets-Alien hybrid blockbuster. You get what you expect from Pena, Berry, and especially Wilson, but the movie was absolutely stolen by John Bradley. I won't say he chewed the scenery every time he was on-screen, but he owned
7) every second of this movie whenever he was on-screen. His performance made this movie watchable. And his cat is named "Fuzz Aldren"!
Its too bad this offering was what it was instead of what it could be, and at 2 hours 10 minutes, it wound up being an easy half hour too long.
Its too bad this offering was what it was instead of what it could be, and at 2 hours 10 minutes, it wound up being an easy half hour too long.
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