Moonfall is a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released by Lionsgate on February 4, 2022. As a disaster film specialist, Emmerich presents a new story about the moon as a giant structure based on the Hollow Moon hypothesis. The movie tells the story of how the Moon suddenly veers off its orbit and is on course to collide with Earth. NASA races against time to save the Moon, which is believed to have been inhabited by mysterious entities that once attacked their satellites in 2011.
Synopsis
In 2011, astronaut Brian Harper and his three colleagues were repairing a satellite when a group of black entities attacked their equipment and spacecraft, killing one of his crewmates. NASA blames Brian, who was deemed reckless, and fired him. Ten years later, a conspiracy theorist named K.C. Houseman believes that the Moon is a giant structure and discovers that it has veered off its orbit. K.C. tries to contact NASA, but they do not believe him, so he tries to provide files containing data about the Moon’s orbit to Brian, who now works at the NASA museum.
Jocinda “Jo” Fowler, Brian’s former colleague from the 2011 incident, now works as a NASA executive. Her team discovers the Moon’s unusual movements as K.C. predicted. They try to keep the news from the public, but it goes viral after K.C. shared it on social media. NASA immediately sends a team to the Moon to investigate the anomaly by taking a rocket launch in Europe. When three astronauts who were sent to investigate the anomaly on the Moon are attacked by a group of black entities and killed, the NASA director resigns from his position and hands it over to Jo.
As the Moon draws near, sea levels rise, and various natural disasters occur in many coastal areas around the world. Jo asks for Brian’s help, the only person who has seen the entities, and the only pilot who can manually control the spacecraft. With the help of Jo’s ex-husband, General Doug Davidson, their aircraft is equipped with weapons that will emit an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) believed to wipe out the entities.
However, one of the aircraft’s engines malfunctions, canceling the plan. When the entire crew is sent home, only a few remain, and K.C. discovers a new fact. As the Moon draws closer, any launching aircraft would be sucked by the Moon’s gravity, even with only two engines. Finally, Brian, Jo, and K.C. board the aircraft and launch it as a giant tsunami with magnetic waves destroys their base. They race against time before the American military unleashes a nuclear strike to destroy the Moon. They detach all the aircraft’s engines and tanks, and as predicted by K.C., they are sucked into the Moon’s gravity and drawn closer.
They enter a massive hole at the bottom of a crater that is more than 20 kilometers deep, where they find that the Moon is a giant structure with intricate mechanical systems, much like K.C.’s hypothesis. Suddenly, they are attacked by the black entities, but the aircraft seems to be controlled by another force that brings them into a safe place. There, Brian discovers the history of human life and the origin of the horrifying entities.
Conclusion
Moonfall is an action-packed and suspenseful film that explores the possibility of a catastrophic and apocalyptic event like the Moon crashing into Earth. The film features brilliant performances from Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Pena, and Donald Sutherland. Emmerich’s direction and visual effects display the catastrophic events in an apocalyptic scale, creating a thrilling experience for moviegoers. Moonfall is a film that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
