Moonfall is a hollow, galaxy-brained spectacle
Halle Berry as Jocinda Fowler and Patrick Wilson as Brian Harper in Moonfall. | Lionsgate For movies like Roland Emmerich's Moonfall that are ostensibly about mysteries meant to keep you guessing, it's never a good sign when the studios behind them more or less spoil their own plots with overstuffed trailers. If you've caught any of Moonfall's bombastic TV spots or seen some of its busier print ads, you'll probably see each of the film's uninspired twists coming long before any of its characters do. But that might not be enough to prepare you for how breathtakingly bad Moonfall - a movie that feels like it could have been great - ends up being.
Like many of Emmerich's far better action / disaster epics, Moonfall's story orbits around a small group of embattled heroes who step up to the challenge of saving humanity when no one...