‘Moonfall’ review: Roland Emmerich debacle is a waste of space
nypost.comthe hallmarks of an Emmerich blockbuster — natural disasters, parents separated from children, the total annihilation of Manhattan — but with a twist so baffling, you pinch your arm to make sure you are really awake.
No need to reach for your dream journal — it’s all painfully real.The lunar-cy begins during a routine space station mission in outer space with Jocinda (Halle Berry), Brian (Patrick Wilson) and another astronaut.
When a “mysterious, technological space anomaly” attacks them, their colleague dies. But a skeptical NASA claims Brian screwed up, and is lying about what he saw.
So he’s brutalized by the media and becomes an ostracized “has been.” The notion that America would ever revolt against an astronaut, one of the most revered professions in the world, for making an error on the job is utterly ridiculous.
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