Tubi Thursday: Moonfall (2022)

 You want to lose over $100 million?  Well, invest in a 'can't miss, surefire hit' Sci-Fi Film from a big time Director.

That's how we got today's Film...

In 2011, a mission to fix a Satellite (which requires 3 Astronauts and not the ISS?) ends tragically when a strange swarm of metal...something attacks.

One Astronaut is launched away, while the witness (Patrick Wilson) flies his Commander (Halle Berry) to safety.

In the Present (of 2022), he's disgraced because nobody believes him.

As it turns out, there's a massive cover-up.
Thanks for explaining that in your one and only Scene, Donald Sutherland (RIP).

Meanwhile, this guys is convinced that the Moon is a Megastructure (basically a giant ship) and not an astral body.

Since the Film couldn't exist without this nonsense, he's right.

Well, he's right about SOME things...

The Moon leaves its orbit- thanks to whatever the hell that metal swarm thing is- and all hell breaks loose on Earth.

It is Roland Emmerich, so cue CGI destruction of the West Coast.

Naturally, it ends up that only Wilson, Berry and the crazy (but correct in this one instance) guy can save the Earth.

Time to fly up in an old ship and hope for the best!

Back on Earth, their families (and Chinese friend designed to get you into the Market) are in trouble on Earth.

Can they save the day for them?

To find out, stream this bizarre fever dream of a Film.

A Film that manages to somehow be both familiar and batshit insane at the same time.

This is a Roland Emmerich Films.
If you played Roland Emmerich Bingo, you'd hit on quite a few squares for sure.

Divorced Lead, bad luck for new Husband, Kids in Peril, Cities Flooded and more.

Once you accept that, you can get dragged along for the insane ride that is this Film's Plot.

Without giving it all away, the Moon isn't, well, a Moon and Aliens exist/existed.

A whole crazy explanation is given late in the Film.  It is so silly that I can't be mad at it.

I'm less thrilled then when the Film keeps cutting back to the Sons, other kids and Chinese lady in a B-Plot that involves robbers...while the Earth is being assailed by fragments of the Moon itself!

This is supposed to be ground the Film (pun fully intended), but I just didn't care for it.

Give me full on crazy without the boring melodrama.  Give me, well, what this AI Generated Fake Trailer Image promises....

No Transformers here- honest!

A Film that is sometimes just so crazy that it works...and sometimes really routine.  Like visiting Willy Wonka....to get your brakes fixed.