Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Produced by Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Screenplay by Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, Spenser Cohen
Starring: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu & Donald Sutherland.
Executive producers: Spenser Cohen, Ute Emmerich, Carsten H.W. Lorenz, Alastair Burlingham.
Edited by Ryan Stevens Harris, Adam Wolfe
Cinematography: Robby Baumgartner
Production Companies:
Distributed by Lionsgate Films
The plot: The world stands on the brink of annihilation when a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling toward a collision course with Earth. With only weeks before impact, NASA executive Jocinda “Jo” Fowler teams up with a man from her past and a conspiracy theorist for an impossible mission into space to save humanity.
I was intrigued to check this movie out.
I Didn’t like that Moonfall Movie!
Pros: Patrick Wilson was a joy to watch as the main lead. I liked how the astronauts outfits looked and the film was no longer than two hours.
Cons: The film can go over board. It skipped through a lot from scene to scene. A lot of the acting wasn’t that good and the storyline can go to ridiculous levels that does not make sense.
Cast & Characters:
- Halle Berry as Jocinda Fowler, a former NASA astronaut now serving as deputy director of NASA and Brian Harper’s colleague who once flew together on a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission
- Patrick Wilson as Brian Harper, a disgraced former NASA astronaut and Fowler’s colleague who flew on a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission
- John Bradley as K.C. Houseman, an independent researcher, who finds out about the Moon being artificial and also discovers the incoming Moon impact towards Earth following his contact with an official from an observatory in Chile.
- Michael Peña as Tom Lopez, Brenda’s husband
- Charlie Plummer as Sonny Harper, Brian and Brenda’s estranged son who was arrested for speeding. Plummer and Dalman additionally portray the manifestation of the Moon’s alien operating system as it appears to Brian Harper.
- Azriel Dalman as young Sonny Harper
- Kelly Yu as Michelle, a foreign exchange student who is also the nanny to Fowler’s son Jimmy.
- Donald Sutherland as Holdenfield, a former NASA official who found out about the dark-side of the Moon mystery that occurred during Apollo 11 mission.
- Eme Ikwuakor as General Doug Davidson, a United States Air Force Four-Star General who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and deputy director, as well as Fowler’s ex-husband.
- Carolina Bartczak as Brenda Harper, Brian’s ex-wife and Sonny’s mother, who currently lives with her new husband Tom.
- Maxim Roy as Gabriella Auclair, a military captain who leads the task-force mission to rescue Brian and Houseman.
- Frank Schorpion as General Jenkins, a United States Air Force Four-Star General who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was tasked by the President of the United States to launch a nuclear strike at the Moon.
- Stephen Bogaert as Albert Hutchings, NASA’s Director who turns over his position to Fowler at the last minute before the Moon’s impact.
- Andreas Apergis as Lieutenant Colonel Reed, a soldier tasked to deliver an EMP that was to be detonated on the Moon.
- Kathleen Fee as Mrs. Elaine Houseman, Houseman’s mother who lives at a nursing home and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
I still recommend watching this film on Prime Video to anyone who like dumb ridiculous Movie like this one.
Rating: 1 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe.