'MOONFALL is stupid, in other words, but I don’t mind admitting that it feels, at this point in time, like my kind of stupidity,' writes JustinCChang
Although it’s arriving in theaters a few days late for Lunar New Year, “Moonfall,” Roland Emmerich’s latest tee-hee disaster flick, feels curiously well timed. Over the past few decades this director’s love for apocalyptic bombast has been a reliable source of headaches, exasperation and, yes, a little dubious entertainment value.
If the cataclysms look familiar, this time they have nothing to do with climate change, alien invaders or the Mayan calendar. No, it’s the moon, the blasted moon, which, having quietly circled the Earth for almost 5 billion years, has decided to undergo a fateful orbital shift. Now she’s breaking apart, raining large chunks of space debris on Earth and wreaking gravitational havoc. Mile-high tsunamis ensue, and before long the moon will pull our poor defenseless planet into a fiery embrace.
These and other lines are bandied about, with admirably straight faces, by a pair of NASA astronauts named Brian Harper and Jocinda Fowler . We first meet them on a routine space mission in 2011, when their shuttle is attacked by what looks like a massive killer-bee swarm originating from beneath the moon’s surface. A third astronaut dies in the onslaught and Harper is blamed and drummed out of NASA in disgrace, no one having apparently believed his story or heeded his warning.
Alas, that’s not the Emmerich-an way. He cares too much about our planet to let its destruction become an afterthought, and so he keeps cutting — or falling — to Earth. I should note that Earth in this case means Aspen, Colo., where our heroes’ various friends and family members find themselves running — but sadly, not skiing — for their lives.
“Moonfall” is stupid, in other words, but I don’t mind admitting that it feels, at this point in time, like my kind of stupidity. Certainly it’s refreshing to see an end-of-the-world movie in which the characters aren’t just cluelessly hashtagging their way to oblivion the way they do inanother recent movie about humanity’s impending extinction.
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