<em>Moonfall</em> Is the Hilarious Nadir of Disaster Movies
Imagine a really terrible version of <em>Independence Day</em>, featuring a lunar catastrophe.
by David Sims
Feb 08, 2022
3 minutes
Throughout Roland Emmerich’s filmography, destruction has loomed over our planet. The city-size saucers of Independence Day, the roaring beast of Godzilla, the tidal waves of The Day After Tomorrow and —the filmmaker has never met a colossal force he couldn’t smash into the Chrysler Building. But after so many years, he’s finally identified the simplest of villains, one floating right above our heads. What is the moon plotting, hanging in the air so lazily? Seems rather suspicious. What if one day it decided to … fall?
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