February 2022!!

 The Month of February brings with it one film to review which is Moonfall.

Plot-"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 is convinced she has the key to saving us all - but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe 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".

 Runtime-130 Minutes

Starring- Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley

 Post Credit-No

 My Thoughts 

I am a big fan of natural disaster movies, in fact its one of my favorite genres so when I saw the trailer for this movie I knew I had to see it. Now having seen the movie my feelings are mixed. On one hand the film does a great job in the scale of the destruction and there are many big set pieces that you wondered if the main cast will make it out of those particular situations which was great. The acting was solid as well considering the material they are given, the standout for me was John Bradley as KC, he is a central part to the movie and his performance stood out above the rest for me, But as I mentioned overall the cast all did a good job given what they had to work with. The plot in this movie isn't much to write home about its a natural disaster movie so going in you know what to expect. I will say the movie loses me in the 3rd act I wont give it away but its gets a bit ridiculous and even for a natural disaster movie the plot goes way into the far fetched realm and I wasn't a fan but others may like where it goes. The special effects for me were hit or miss, some looked really good and top quality (the film had a budget of 145 million so that's expected) but some of the special effects looked like they belonged in a syfy channel  film which is pretty sad when you think about the budget. I wont spend too much going into this film but it was more misses than hits for me. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 40% saying "Whether Moonfall is so bad it's good or simply bad will depend on your tolerance for B-movie cheese -- but either way, this is an Emmerich disaster thriller through and through.". It does its job in that it is a big scale natiral disaster film and it definitely feels like that but the 3rd act ruined the movie for me it was a bit too nonsensical and was very hard to beleive. 

Rating

Big budget, Big set pieces but the 3rd act lost me. 6.0/10!!