“Moonfall”, a slapstick and yet realistic disaster film

• With the Moon getting dangerously close to Earth, will scientists and astronauts manage to prevent the annihilation of our planet?

• Roland Emmerich is having fun in his new film "Moonfall" and his joy is contagious.

What's good about Roland Emmerich's disaster films is that you know what you're going to see and you get it.

is no exception.

It is bullshit ".

This time, as the title suggests, the Earth has a date with the Moon.

Rather brutally.

The director of

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and

knows how to handle it when it comes to manhandling our planet.

He doesn't get tired of it and neither does the spectator, so much it is enjoyable to witness this massive destruction while heroes embodied by Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley (

) try to save the furniture.

In collaboration with NASA

“Some believe that the moon is not a natural object, explains the director in the press kit.

I thought that was an intriguing premise for a film.

What would happen if this object fell to Earth?

The unscientific answer is that it would do damage.

The only hope lies with a handful of intrepid astronauts and more or less freakish scientists to pull humanity out of this mess.

While bad guys in the military want to blow it all up, a solution they always seem ready to favor no matter what troubles they face.

Bad minds might conclude that Roland Emmerich is not attached to realism.

It is a misunderstanding of the director who secured the services of NASA, delighted to see his employees glorified in an eccentric fiction, certainly, but presenting them as heroes ready for all sacrifices.

The American agency even lent rockets for the sets and provided a technical adviser to help the actors reproduce the gestures of the astronauts precisely.

NASA also donated high-definition photos of the Moon and agreed to let the team use its logo.

A cocktail of delirium

There ends the serious aspect of

which happily mixes tidal waves, falling meteorites, space travel, smoky theories and other fantasies to give a frankly joyful work intended above all to give good adrenaline rushes to the spectator .

Roland Emmerich still has so much fun breaking everything and you feel like you've been invited to his home to share his toys.

has no other ambition but fulfills it perfectly.

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