Moonfall (2022) Movie Review

Hello guys and welcome back for another round of movie reviews with Movie Nerd, a place where you can be nerdy about movies!

So, I know that there has been a lack of content here for the past month but, because there weren't any new movies in January, besides the new Scream, I really did not have anything else to review. I have some reviews on hold for movies that I had seen at home but I will do those when I have the time. There are a lot of things going on in my life right now, that I really cannot focus enough on all of them at once but, I am hoping that things really start to arrange themselves very soon, so I can still provide you with some good, fresh and honest movie reviews. This month has at least 3 movies that I can really talk about them, one of the being this one, the latest from Roland Emmerich, the German Michael Bay and the master of disaster movies. With this one, however, that master touch of his is not that present and it's barely reaching. More on that up next but, first, a bit of a synopsis for you guys:

• In 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. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award® winner Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, “Midway”) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley, “Game of Thrones”) believes her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.

So, I am a big fan of disaster movies, especially this guy's disaster movies because they are fun, crazy, stupid movies that I can watch and turn my brain off for a couple of hours and enjoy the mayhem that is happening before my eyes. More often than not, these movies don't rely on story or plot or logic, even though they contain some dialogue or some piece of the script that contains some science stuff. That is the case with this one as well.

It's not the worst of Emmerich's movies but it's definitely not the best one because, when I go to see a disaster movie I expect to see some destructions and mayhem and chaos. This movie contains all of those but in a very small amount, which really took me out of the movie. A good portion of the movie is just taking and explaining and trying to figure out stuff, which can get boring and tedious at some point, with the movie being a little over 2 hours, it has a really slow pacing. Not to mention that it has every single cliche of the genre, which means that, besides having a lack of epic disaster sequences it also has a lack of originality. It's basically every single disaster movie ever made and every single Emmerich movie ever made. It's like a combination between Armaghedon, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, in terms of plot, if you can even call it a plot.

Some of the scenes are cut very abruptly, with dialogue that, from my point of view, still needed a conclusion, which it never got. Speaking of the dialogue, it's bad and in some cases it really sucks and I got so annoyed at some point because of the dialogue. The disaster scenes are so few and so far apart that I really thought that I was not watching a disaster movie. Although, I have to say, that, however few and far apart, when those disaster scenes happen, they look really cool and awesome and very menacing, especially towards the end. It's got some really good visuals, some of the images would really kill as a laptop desktop.

When it does have some action sequences, the movie really tries to make them look good and fun, some of them really nailing that but most of them are not quite up to speed.

Overall, if you like science fiction/disaster B-movies, you can give this one a shot and you can decide for yourself, if this is the type of movie that it's bad it's good type or just plain bad type. It really has some fun sequences of action and disaster but the plot, the whole story plus the all present cliches and lack of originality, I am inclining for the second type. 5.5/10

OK guys, that was my review for this one. Expect two others for Death on the Nile and Uncharted, which I really hope that it's not going to disappoint me, which I am guessing it will. Until then, take care, stay movie nerdy and keep on reviewing!