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Moonfall Movie Review

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:18:37 +0000

When a disgraced astronaut uses a hot-wired space shuttle to mount an attempt to save the world, you know you are in for a wacky ride. Delivering this generation’s Plan 9 from Outer Space, writer/director/producer Roland Emmerich spends a lot of other people’s money in pursuit of cinematic immortality.

Advancing from pie plate UFOs, this time the moon is the menace heading to earth to cause devastation and destruction. So it’s time for outcast Astro boy Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) and hot NASA heroine Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) to suit up and save the day. They drag along conspiracy theorist KC Houseman (John Bradley) to complete their ragtag team.

Hitching a gravity-led sleigh ride to the moon after the repurposed space shuttle blows a gasket, they encounter what’s really going on with the moon, and here’s a clue, it’s not made out of cheese, or is it? As fodder for a drinking game, there are just too many categories to choose and headaches will ensue.

Emmerich stretches almost every law known to man well past the breaking point. so needless to say the law of physics and laws of science didn’t stand a chance. Nor did the law of common sense. This is filmmaking pushed so far past the ridiculous zone, it needs a new category created around it.

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Watch the official trailer for Moonfall – in Aussie cinemas this February!

admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:12:23 +0000

In Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson), and conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley) believe her. The unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space only to find out that our moon is not what we think it is.

Moonfall is directed by Roland Emmerich and stars Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, and Donald Sutherland.

Moonfall is coming to Australian cinemas on February 3rd 2022.

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Midway Movie Review

admin — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:04:36 +0000

Showing more discipline and restraint than we’ve become accustomed to with Roland Emmerich, this time out he rolls back the forced histrionics and creates a straightforward account of one of World War Two’s most pivotal battles. The Battle Of Midway was a decisive event and hobbled the early Japanese effort in the Pacific.

In 1941 they started their offensive against the USA with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbour. Their hopes of a quick disabling of the American military might in the region was a stated goal. Due to the allied forces’ ability to decipher their secret communications, the American forces were able to mount a successful counter attack.

Emmerich wisely pares down the number of main protagonists to a small number to keep the story tightly focused. The action scenes when the CGI renderings look realistic are very exciting and it gives you a real sense of how much danger the pilots faced when attacking the flotilla of ships. The main battle is also concise and keeps the rapid pace intact.

Presenting a major battle from WWII shows a time when the enemy was clearly established and not the scales of grey that are present in the skirmishes that blight the world now. It shows the American might to be superior in this instance but thankfully focuses more on the personal heroics of the participants than just delivering more didactic rhetoric.

Rob Hudson
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