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Moonfall: Movie Review

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Moonfall: Movie Review Cast: Patrick Wilson, Halle Berry, John Bradley Director: Roland Emmerich Nobody does it like the master of disaster, Roland Emmerich. He's blown up the White House in Independence Day and taken the planet out with climate change in The Day After Tomorrow - Emmerich's got an eye for a big scale FX-led disaster flick, but sadly no ear for the dialogue that should come with the spectacle. Emmerich doesn't shake things up in Moonfall, a movie largely predicated on the story that the Moon is moving out of its orbit, is on a collision course with the Earth and only a small team of misfits on a desperate one last hope mission can save the day. Throw in some talk of Megastructures (courtesy of Sam Tarwell's John Bradley as a seemingly mad conspiracy theorist), emotional threats to a wronged spaceman whose last mission ended badly (Patrick Wilson, affable and untouchable) and his "work wife" whom he saved in space but who's drifted from his ...