It's like someone went 'Alexa write a really, really bad science fiction script'.

Full Review | May 20, 2022

In the credits for Moonfall, theres at least one astronaut consultant listed, but most of the film feels like a sustained dare to create the least realistic space movie ever made.

| Mar 19, 2022

This film is totally stupid, but perhaps not stupid enough.

| Feb 24, 2022

When the answer arrives as to why the moon is doing what it’s doing, it shows that the loopiest of them all is the eccentric German director of this amusing space oddity. It’s worth waiting for.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 17, 2022

The plot makes very little sense, the dialogue is awful, the twists are hilarious when they shouldnt be it might be one of those so bad its good films for some people. For me, its just bad.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2022

Moonfall is bad – the wrong kind of bad – because everything in this formula fails to hold up its end of the bargain. The effects are muddled; the supporting cast is terrible.

| Feb 10, 2022

If you’re looking for a nice, empty-brained evening at the movies, Moonfall is the ticket to buy right now. But although Emmerich was the poet laureate of apocalypse blockbusters in the 1990s and 2000s, his same old song has gotten wearier.

| Feb 9, 2022

Extensive special effects pour on sci-fi elements that help distract attention from the tacky narrative.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2022

You're going for the CGI destruction anyway, and even on those rubbly grounds, Moonfall is a disappointment, flitting by its destroyed vistas with a weird impatience.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 8, 2022

At this point, you either surrender to the surface pleasures of Emmerich’s grand, American daydream -- bombast and all -- or you simply steer clear.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2022

There are too many characters and too many redemption arcs in this silly, overstuffed sci-fi. At least the eye-poppingly expensive special effects are cool.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2022

Moonfall is precisely what you’d expect a film called Moonfall to be: deeply, defiantly, sometimes exasperatingly daft. It’s Roland Emmerich on apocalypse-autopilot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2022

The best parts of “Moonfall” feel like a sharp and cogent reproach to the corporate stolidity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and other superhero-franchise movies. The ridiculous proves occasionally sublime.

| Feb 5, 2022

Moonfall is maddingly nuts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 5, 2022

There's not much gravity in this loony lunar disaster movie.

| Feb 5, 2022

I was naturally inclined to enjoy Moonfall, and I did, though maybe with not quite as much glee as I vibed with the fevered conspiracy theories and lovingly preserved world treasures of 2012.

| Feb 4, 2022

Nearly every scene is a climactic moment, albeit with virtually no connective tissue to explain why things are happening or even how the characters got from one location to another.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 4, 2022

Emmerich’s latest is an absolutely bananas piece of big-budget filmmaking, a sci-fi-, action- and disaster-thriller that gets more crazy by the minute. It makes Independence Day look like Little Women.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2022

You will actually hear your brain cells commit seppuku as you watch it.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 4, 2022

The movie has the benefit of getting stranger and stranger as it gyrates. It’s a drag, though, to see Berry dutifully playing ball with two bowls of vanilla pudding as co-leads, both of whom are better actors than they come off here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2022