Far from the irony of Adam McKay's "Don't Look Up", posted on Netflix in mid-December and which fueled debates on climate change denial, "Moonfall", in theaters on Friday in the United States and Wednesday in France, tells the story of a former astronaut working at NASA (Halle Berry) who tries an impossible mission to save the Earth, threatened with annihilation by... the fall of the Moon.
Her only two allies in this suicide mission: an astronaut she has known in the past (Patrick Wilson) and a conspiracy theorist (John Bradley, Samwell Tarly in "Game of Thrones").
The film (2:04) connects the clichés, from the small group of Americans who must save the world to the lessons on the couple reunited by the imminence of the disaster and the praise of family values when everything else collapses .
Not much new compared to films like "Twister" (1996) or "San Andreas" (2015), on this last point.
Another obligatory passage of disaster films, "Moonfall" aligns its contingent of generals with impassive faces with a fixed idea: to disintegrate the threat - here the Moon - with large missiles.
Only the cliché of the dog surviving the apocalypse - escaping lava in "Dante's Peak" or "Volcano", asteroids in "Armageddon", aliens in "Independence Day" or tornadoes in "Twister" - is spared the spectators of "Moonfall", which ignores the best friend of man.
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