Some people might look up at the moon and
admire its glowing and desolate beauty. Director
Roland Emmerich apparently sees a constructed
hollow orb that may have been built by aliens.
Some of us will never gaze up at it the same
after seeing his mind-blowing “Moonfall.”
Emmerich’s latest is an absolutely bananas
piece of big-budget filmmaking, a sci-fi-,
action- and disaster-thriller that gets more
crazy by the minute. It makes “Independence
Day” look like “Little Women.” “My freaking
brain just exploded,” says one character, and
who can complain?
“Moonfall” stars Halle Berry and Patrick
Wilson as one-time astronauts who have
to repair their strained friendship and save
Earth when the moon gets unmoored from
its orbit and starts coming frighteningly
closer to us, wreaking havoc.
The ilm adds to these two gorgeous creatures the
“Game of Thrones” actor John Bradley as a pudgy
conspiracy whackadoodle with irritable bowel
syndrome and a cat named Fuzz Aldrin who
somehow also is pressed into saving the world.
Emmerich directs a script he co-wrote with
Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen and it
comes close to camp, recalling ’90s disaster
flicks like “Armageddon,” some high concept
from “Interstellar,” some Emmerich DNA from
“The Day After Tomorrow” and even call-
backs to “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Planet
of the Apes.”
“Moonfall” has all the hallmarks of a
traditional popcorn sci-fi film — the grim
military officers a little too ready with
their nukes, a rag-tag group of heroes with