Moonfall  ★★

ROLAND Emmerich has made decent  good films over the years but Moonfall is not one of them.

Since leaving his native Germany for Hollywood in the early 1990s his films have included Stargate, Independence Day, The Patriot and The Day After Tomorrow.

He is best known for big science fiction disaster films with humanity on the brink of devastation and a handful of people with its fate in their hands.

Of course all these films require a major suspension of disbelief, but Moonfall is so packed with ridiculous ideas and motivations that it proves a bridge too far in every respect.

I spent almost every minute of the film questioning what was going on as the plot became more ludicrous and the holes wider. In the end I had almost lost total interest.

The film stars Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry as two astronauts who experience an extraordinary phenomena while working near the moon which results in the death of a colleague.

Wilson’s character, Brian Harper, claims the incident was caused by something artificial that came out of a moon crater. He isn’t believed and is thrown out of NASA.

Ten years later, conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley), who believes the Moon is an artificial megastructure built by aliens, discovers that the Moon’s orbit has been adjusted and it is coming closer to Earth. NASA discovers the same thing sometime later, just as disasters start to increase around the World.

With an extinction-level event imminent, Halle berry’s NASA scientist enlists Harper and Houseman to accompany her on a trip to ‘recalibrate’ the Moon’s orbit amidst the mounting amount of ridiculous plot points.

Oh yes, they bring a shuttle out of a space museum and quickly get it ready for the trip. I mean, really?

Apparently a group of people worked on the script for four years. And they came up with this?