moonfall


 Moonfall was almost not that bad. But it was bad.

It featured John Bradley. And until just ten seconds ago, I thought he was someone else. The entire time I saw the previews and then watched the actual movie, I totally thought he was the heavy friend from Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. That actor's name is Nick Frost. And if you put up their pics side by side, you'll see why I got them confused.

Anyway, it also features Halle Barry, Patrick Wilson (whose name I didn't exactly recognize but he's the guy in the Conjuring, in that scene where the demon leans out from behind him and scares the crap out of you), Michael Pena (who is always funny), and Donald Sutherland. It also features decent science fiction theory - that the moon is hollow, and it's hollow for a reason.

But the writing is very bad. The plot is silly, the physics throughout the movie make zero sense. With a better, funnier, cast that made us really care about them, it might have been almost not that bad.

But it was bad.

Now, I do have to point out that many people really liked this movie. If you read reviews online, lots of people call it a great movie. My opinion, which I keep largely to myself, is that those people don't really know what a good movie is. But I bring that up because you might actually see and really enjoy this movie. I'm not saying it has no value. I'm saying it was poorly done and could have been much better. But I'm not saying don't see it.

Just know that my personal opinion is that it was bad. It's rated PG13 and I think that's for language and maybe adult situations - I don't recall any strong violence or any nudity at all.

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