Moonfall Review

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The most annoying thing about Roland Emmerich's Moonfall is the way that it constantly swings from the fun kind of dumb and the frustrating kind of dumb. Make no mistake, it's as dumb as its title would lead one to believe for every minute of its interminable runtime, but it somehow manages the worst sin a movie like this can commit: being boring.

Regardless of name recognition, everyone knows a Roland Emmerich movie or two. He's the name that comes to mind when it comes to dumb but fun disaster movies since the nineties. At his best, he crafts empty spectacle worthy of sped-up YouTube compilations set to bad rock music. At his worst, he throws together conspiracy-laden drivel that he seems to think is genius. Moonfall is admirable in the sense that it packs in tons of both.

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There are a lot of things Moonfall seems like. An Independence Day sequel that was scrapped after the second movie crashed and burned, or a fake movie that characters on a teen sitcom are excited to see. The obvious end result of someone half-explaining the concept of the Roche Limit to Roland Emmerich. Above all else, the film is an open admission that if the man behind The Day After Tomorrow ever had an ounce of restraint, it has now left him behind. Moonfall contains every bad impulse its writer/director is known for in spades, with very little of the enjoyable chaos that once made his films tolerable to some. However, it does have a lot of pretty colors and decent sound design, so it will probably make its money back.

For the uninitiated, the plot of Moonfall is deceptively simple. The moon's orbit has begun to shift from its eternal path and scientists swiftly realize that its new