Moonfall
Moonfall

Moonfall

2022Movie131 minEnglish

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.

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IMDb5.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes49%
Metacritic41/100
Google Users45%
Director: Roland EmmerichGenres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Plot Summary

A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it on a collision course with life as we know it. With only weeks before impact, a ragtag team is sent on a seemingly impossible mission to land on the Moon, uncover the mystery of why it's out of orbit, and save humanity.

Critical Reception

Moonfall was widely panned by critics and audiences alike, with many criticizing its convoluted plot, over-the-top action sequences, and lack of scientific plausibility. It was considered a commercial disappointment.

What Reviewers Say

  • While visually spectacular in parts, the film suffers from a nonsensical plot and predictable dialogue.
  • Roland Emmerich delivers his signature brand of disaster spectacle, but the story fails to engage.
  • A sci-fi disaster film that is more absurd than thrilling, relying heavily on special effects over substance.

Google audience: Audiences found the film to be entertaining in its spectacle but ultimately too unbelievable and poorly written to be taken seriously. Many enjoyed the visual effects but felt the story lacked coherence and character development.

Fun Fact

Director Roland Emmerich has stated that the concept for the film came to him during a late-night chat with his children about what would happen if the moon crashed into Earth.

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8 reviews
Sejian

Sejian

The underlying premise of this movie makes zero sense to me. **SPOILERS AHEAD:** An hour and thirty-six minutes in and all is revealed: The moon is a megastructure constructed by our technologically advanced ancestors! They achieved u...
hamfaceman

hamfaceman

Really fun over the top action "sci-fi" that is ridiculous and endlessly entertaining. The scene where they jump the car in low gravity is hilarious and amazing. There are so many bits of dialogue and action sequences that are absurd, it's ...
Per Gunnar Jonsson

Per Gunnar Jonss...

Is this a good movie? Well, if you expect some reasonable scientific accuracy or a story that is logical then hell no! If however you only seek two hours of entertaining action-adventure and a shitload of special effects, then it is a prett...
Robbie Grawey

Robbie Grawey

Put on my Letterboxd shirt and went to the theater to see Moonfall, for the movies ✊ Dumb, ambitious, and fun! A little tedious and laughable at times (some of these line deliveries, man), but I loved it :)
Manuel São Bento

Manuel São Bento

MORE SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS @ https://www.msbreviews.com/ "Moonfall is as insanely nonsensical as one could hope/expect, but it's the lack of entertaining sequences for most of the runtime that brings the film down. The balance between the...
r96sk

r96sk

A bit messy, this. <em>'Moonfall'</em> is actually good in areas that I was expecting it to be bad in and bad in areas I thought it might've been good in. I had caught one of the trailers - at the cinema for a different film - and didn't...
tmdb81678279

tmdb81678279

After watching the movie, I thought that if I had watched it on a streaming platform I would wish I caught it in the cinemas. Luckily I watched it on an IMAX cinema so the screen was huge and the sound was great, dialague was loud and clear...
Chris Sawin

Chris Sawin

With Moonfall, Roland Emmerich has essentially made an even dumber version of Michael Bay’s Armageddon. There’s not a lot to enjoy here apart from K.C. Houseman’s house cat being named Fuzz Aldrin. With its idiotic premise, hammy dialogue i...