Moonfall reviews are in – and it seems the movie lives up to its truly out-there premise.
In the movie, as you might be able to guess from the title, the Moon is on a collision course with planet Earth. That would, clearly, be a disaster on a massive scale, which means it needs to be stopped: enter Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry as two astronauts on a mission, and Game of Thrones' John Bradley as a conspiracy theorist who figures out what's going on ahead of NASA. Roland Emmerich directs.
Critics are mostly discussing the wild places the plot goes, along with the visual spectacle of the Earth under threat, and there's even a couple of comparisons to Don't Look Up.
We've rounded up a selection of reviews here to give you an idea about what to expect from Moonfall, and you can check them out below. So, strap-in, scroll on, and get ready for a trip to space...
"The world can't end soon enough in director Roland Emmerich's latest attempt to re-create the sci-fi/disaster-movie mayhem that he conjured successfully in such films as Independence Day, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow. Featuring many of the same grandiose elements as those predecessors, Moonfall looks and sounds like a would-be cinematic blockbuster but comes up painfully short in its ham-fisted execution. Filled with unintentional humor, the film seems inevitably destined for exposure on a future incarnation of Mystery Science Theater 3000."
"It's basically the opposite of Don't Look Up, which chastens audiences for not reacting to threats in the right way. If that movie was [director Adam] McKay's answer to Michael Bay's relatively jingoistic Armageddon, in which a core team of blue-collar "get 'er done" types manage to avert an asteroid, then Emmerich
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