"MOONFALL" IS SCIFI, DRAMATIC FUN!

🎥🎞Movie Review🎞🎥- MOONFALL - PG - HBO+ - In the swirling drain of recent Hollywood trash films and unpolished series that are steaming and leaving many fans confused with bad story telling and unforgivable plot twists, MOONFALL is an incredible fantasy SCIFI film that was smartly written, which also presents a real life finesse to the struggles of having to learn that NASA has been hiding secrets from the American public. The plot is dubious, as a trio of NASA astronauts who make first contact with an alien entity during a routine orbital mission, that plots a course for the moon and quickly forces the moon's orbit to decay, potentially slamming the moon into the earths atmosphere and perpetrating potential world-wide destruction. Of course, earth is not prepared and the entire success of a dire mission to the moon lands on a three man team that have only one chance to fix the failing trajectory of the moon.

The film stars Halle Barry, Patrick Wilson, and John Bradley. The screenplay is by Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, and Spenser Cohen. Directed by Roland Emmerich. The movie didn't do so well in the box office, but on HBO+, the film has flourished and has received positive reviews where it counts. I was impressed with the visual effects, the acting, and the choice of music for the film. Bradley, who is widely known for his role as Samwell Tarly in the Game of Thrones, performs a stunning and humorous part of the "non-scientist" and conspiracy theorist, who has figured out the entire plot for the moon crashing into the earth at an increased rate, before any this real time information landed into NASA's lap.

The strength of the film comes from the performances of Barry, who always does a colossal job of transforming herself into the required role to give solid character development and bring some believable emotion to required scenes. Wilson plays his part well, and even though his has an exclusive skill of seemingly not being too excited for his part in any film, delivers a strong performance and provides the right temperament for a professional astronaut who is stripped from his job and future successes by NASA, in an attempt to keep the truth of aliens existing so close to earth.

The one weakness in the film is the story sub-plot, where the families of Barry and Wilson are left back on earth to struggle during the planetary holocaust that is crashing all around them. Obviously written in as filler, these parts in the film were cast with a bunch of nobodies that are let by veteran actor, Michael Pena. This story arc extension seems to drag, even though there are large explosions, action sequences that seem to go no where, and completely destroys any momentum made by the main arc being presented on the moon, the alien entity that is hell bent on killing all organic matter, and a separate alien technology that can restore the moons orbit and save the earth.

In my opinion, I found it really hard to bash this movie as it was clearly produced to entertain and not be taken so seriously as a historically correct film. But with better promotional advertising, a stronger trailer, and the editing out of the "family survival" story arc, this film could have done a whole lot better at the theater and might have flourished with an all time high in streaming on HBO+.

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 [3.5 of 5 Stars]