Emmerich’s disaster films are unjustly laughed at. He was one of the first directors to warn climate change deniers (“The Day After Tomorrow”), explained that only the super-rich would be given shelter in the event of a natural disaster (“2012”), and told of a US President who was his First Lady nicknamed “Liar” and perishes from her death despite saving humanity from aliens (“Independence Day”). In Emmerich’s world there are winners, but also many tragic anti-heroes.
In “Moonfall” the moon threatens to crash into the earth, and Emmerich describes the failure of the military, who wanted to take up arms against the earth’s satellite, with legendary Emmerich sentences: “We are ready to stop the moon with all available means ! I’m dead serious about that!” But even the billionaires from Silicon Valley who are fantasizing about universal conquest have not come up with a working plan. Ultimately, good old NASA sends a discarded space shuttle on its way to the celestial body. This is a film about the belief that we can have a say in galactic affairs with our existing space technology alone and defeat a possibly extraterrestrial force that is suspected to be in the moon.
The world saviors on this mission include two astronauts (Berry, Wilson) and a grown Incel (John Bradley), who was the first to notice from his high-tech nursery that the moon was on a collision course. Although Emmerich feeds conspiracy tales about the Apollo program, “Moonfall” is, compared to the concurrent doomsday film “Don’t Look Up”, not a hysterical and cynical explainer of the world, but an old-school action-packed act that sees a threat as real and not presented as metaphorical. Hold on to the end if – spoilers! – is raved about an “intergalactic war for billions of years”.
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