By Reporter
After bringing us narrowly averted apocalypses instigated by alien invaders, giant monsters, doomsday prophesies, and climate change (which, admittedly, hits a little too close to home these days), Emmerich looks to the night sky for the next threat to humanity in Moonfall, his latest foray into disaster-as-art on the big screen. The film casts Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry as a pair of retired astronauts who are humanity’s last, best hope for survival when a mysterious entity knocks the moon out of orbit and puts it on a collision course with Earth. Along the way, they’re assisted by a brilliant-but-awkward conspiracy theorist played by John Bradley, who joins them on a journey into space to figure out what crawled up the moon’s butt and made it so cranky.
It’s the sort of premise that’s easy to ridicule, certainly, but it’s also the sort of film that’s easy to enjoy if you go in with the right kind of expectations.