Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson.Photo: Lionsgate
BeforeMoonfalltouches down in theaters this weekend, critics are sharing their thoughts on the Roland Emmerich sci-fi film.
Despite the star power of Berry and Wilson,Moonfalllargely failed to impress critics, who dismissed the movie as"stupid"and"a moonfail."
Patrick Wilson in Moonfall.Lionsgate
Frank Scheck wrote inThe Hollywood Reporterthat"Moonfalllooks and sounds like a would-be cinematic blockbuster but comes up painfully short in its ham-fisted execution."
He added, “Filled with unintentional humor, the film seems inevitably destined for exposure on a future incarnation ofMystery Science Theater 3000.”
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Vanity Fair, too, panned Emmerich’s latest, with Richard Lawson dubbing the film “awfully boring” and “a lifeless assemblage of confusing CGI and pat characters we barely know.”
Lawson added, “I had hoped to, at least, hoot along with the movie in support of its swaggering silliness. But the film is dull and mostly depressing, a testament to the state of non-franchise maximalist filmmaking today.”
Critics also joked about the movie on Twitter, where Tomris Laffly — who writes forVarietyand Roger Ebert,tweeted, “MOONFALL: You know the news ain’t good when your cell rings in the middle of the night and the call is from NASA!”
Vulturecritic Alison Wilmoretweeted a cartoonwith the caption, “When Patrick Wilson in MOONFALL says he doesn’t want to go on a desperate last-ditch mission to space because he’s got problems of his own down on earth and then Halle Berry retorts ‘And the moon falling in pieces onto the Earth isn’t one of them?!’ "
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The Los Angeles Timeswas more lenient onMoonfall, with critic Justin Chang describing the film as his own “kind of stupidity.”
“Certainly it’s refreshing to see an end-of-the-world movie in which the characters aren’t just cluelessly hashtagging their way to oblivion the way they do inDon’t Look Up, another recent movie about humanity’s impending extinction,” Chang noted.
He added, “Moonfall, to its credit, harbors no illusions about being useful. I don’t know about mega-structures, but this particular moon is made of purest B-movie cheese.”
Moonfallpremieres in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
