Trailer Trashin’: The End of the World is Nigh in ‘Moonfall’
Mike Tyrkus
John Bradley, Patrick Wilson, and Halle Berry in “Moonfall.”
It has been quite a long time since CinemaNerdz has been graced with a timely installment of Trailer Trashin’ to be sure. But, never fear, we’re back and hoping to start a new dialogue of trailer discussion with you all. This week, we take a look at the latest trailer from the action/adventure/science fiction film Moonfall.
Premise: In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.
Our take: It has been quite a while since I have been interested in anything that director Roland Emmerich has had to offer, but there is something about this film that feels like a cross between the director’s other films The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Independence Day (1996) and that suggests that maybe it could just be a fun disaster movie disguised as an alien invasion.
The ominous narration delivered by Donald Sutherland sets the perfect tone and the cutting between various cataclysmic events and extraterrestrial threats points to an overall mood for the film that could prove both exhilarating and, well, just plain entertaining.
ANTICIPATION: We are going to be cautiously optimistic about this one.
Release Date: February 4th, 2022
Starring: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Donald Sutherland Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Spenser Cohen, Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.
