“Moonfall” is, hands down, the silliest movie I’ve seen in a *long* time. That said, it’s also fairly entertaining.
You *have* to go into this one with your higher brain functions turned off. It’s not so much that they got the science wrong; it’s more like they took a look at the science and said “FU, Science!” and did what they wanted to do anyway. The moon has a white dwarf inside it. A Space Shuttle solid rocket booster just… shuts off for no reason. The Moon gets close enough to scrape the atmosphere and, somehow, gains a surface gravity as great as that of the Earth… and yet the Earth isn’t torn asunder. The US and Europeans are able to cobble together a manned lunar SLS mission in days; and then NASA is able to pull a Space Shuttle out of a museum, stack it up at Vandenberg, and launch it with a ground crew of *two* *guys.* A guy is able to land a completely powered-down space shuttle simply by twiddling some valves. Gravity and orbital dynamics follow the Star Wars model at the best of times.
Yeah, no.
Still, it was *largely* entertaining. There are a lot of plot-unnecessary diversions to The Folks At Home, with the now expected divorced parents, kids, hapless stepfathers. Some editing could chop those out and make a tight little hour of quality splosion-riffic entertainment.
Lots of pretty disasterpalooza.
The movie ends with a hook for a sequel. But given that the production budget was $140 million and int he first two weeks its brought in around $17 million domestically… yeah, I’m not betting on a sequel happening. The local theater is now down to two showing a day, and there were a grand total of two people in the theater when I was there. Well, at least the mask mandate thing could be ignored…