{"id":30533,"date":"2022-09-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30533"},"modified":"2022-09-17T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:41:07","slug":"30533","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30533","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Moonfall\u00a0(2022)&#8221; Starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z091722zview_moonfall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Moonfall<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Roland Emmerich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, Spenser Cohen<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Charlie Plummer, Michael Pe\u00f1a, Carolina Bartczak<\/strong> and <strong>Donald Sutherland<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Earth&#8230; We have a problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the moon mysteriously goes out of orbit and takes a path to destroy Earth, it is up to Jocinda Fowler (Berry), Acting NASA director, Brian Harper (Wilson), a disgraced former astronaut, and KC Houseman (Bradley) a nerd-genius who was first to discover the problem, to save the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Moonfall<\/em> is a throwback to disaster movies of the 70s.\u00a0 Movies like <em>The Towering Inferno<\/em>, and <em>Earthquake<\/em>, but with a Roland Emmerich sensibility.\u00a0 So instead of a building full of people or the population of a large city, Emmerich puts the entire planet at risk.\u00a0 <em>Moonfall<\/em> gets a lot of mileage from the likeability of Bradley&#8217;s character and the special effects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie begins with characters that are hard to like (except for KC Houseman).\u00a0 Jocinda Fowler doesn&#8217;t provide strong support for Harper in a NASA investigation.\u00a0 Harper comes off as a uninvolved parent who creates more problems for his troubled son.\u00a0 Michael Pe\u00f1a plays Harper&#8217;s son&#8217;s stepdad and even he comes off in a bad light.\u00a0 Of course everyone will have a character arc that shows their growth and that they really are good people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For me, <em>Moonfall<\/em>&#8216;s biggest problem is the backstory on why the moon went out of orbit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like someone said we need a reason to get these three unlikely heroes into space and someone yelled, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got it.\u00a0 <em>Moonfall<\/em> will be <span class=\"z4P7Tc\"><em>Armageddon<\/em> meets <em>Terminator<\/em> meets <em>The Matrix Reloaded<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of disaster movies, special effects and aren&#8217;t overly concerned about logic or real life physics, then<em> Moonfall<\/em> might be what you&#8217;re looking for. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); 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