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A global steel company is working with an aerospace partner to extract lunar material. When a drilling accident causes a giant piece of the moon to break off, it goes on a collision course with Earth.

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Moon Crash (2022)

Rating: ★★★.

Director/Photography – Noah Luke, Screenplay – Lauren Pritchard & Joe Roche, Producer – David Michael Latt, Photography – Noah Luke, Music – Tim Carlos & Mikel Shane Prather, Visual Effects Supervisor – Glenn Campbell, Production Design – Alexandra Regazzoni. Production Company – The Asylum.

Tyler Christopher (Steve Sawyer), Pauline Egan (Amanda Sawyer), Jamison Jones (Logan Sawyer), Jeremy London (General Madden), Marisha Shine (Nina), Jenny Tran (Jing), Alexa Marie Anderson (Carrie), Joe Finfera (Dave), Sierra Collins (Christine), Riccardo Herraz (Dominic), Azeem Veccho (Bobby)

The Taurus Corporation has established a mining operation on The Moon. Sawyer Aerospace has been employed to provide transport between Earth and The Moon. However, the Taurus miners push their drilling operation to excess speed and cause a massive fault line to open up in the Moon’s surface. A large chunk of the Moon’s surface breaks off and heads on a collision course with Earth. The Sawyer ship is damaged during the breakaway. Advance debris strikes near where Sawyer Aerospace CEO Steve Sawyer is visiting his estranged wife Amanda at the observatory she runs in the Mojave Desert. With debris impacting all around the world, The Pentagon wants to fire a nuclear missile to deflect the meteor but Steve pleads that this will have disastrous consequences on the Earth. Steve contacts his brother Logan, the pilot of the ship on The Moon. Steve and the other astronauts seek to improvise a solution to deflect the meteor using what they have to hand.

-->Since the early 2000s, the low-budget US production company The Asylum has been known for their output of Mockbusters – films that come out with titles intended to mimic those of big-budget releases in the hope that people will mistake them or not look too closely. In between these, they essentially created the Gonzo Killer Shark film, as popularised by their bad movie hit Sharknado (2013), and have made an assortment of monster films and disaster movies.

The disaster movie has become the province of the Syfy Channel and other channels during the latter half of the 2000s through the 2010s. In this time, there have been a great many cheap and usually formulaic efforts churned out. (For a more detailed listing of these, see my essay Disaster Movies ). The Asylum has dabbled in a number of these with the likes of Titanic II (2009), 100° Below 0 (2012), 500 MPH Storm (2013), Airplane vs Volcano (2013), Asteroid vs Earth (2014), San Andreas Quake (2015), Geo-Disaster (2017), Oceans Rising (2017), Apocalypse of Ice (2020), Asteroid-a-Geddon (2020), Collision Earth (2020), Titanic 666 (2022) and 20.0 Megaquake (2022).

With almost every film that Roland Emmerich has made, The Asylum have offered up one of their mockbuster copies – after Emmerich made 10,000 B.C. (2008), they offered up 100 Million B.C. (2008); they made several 2012 (2009) mockbusters with 2012 Doomsday (2007), 2012 Supernova (2009) and 2012: Ice Age (2011); Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) begat Independents’ Day (2016); and Emmerich’s Midway (2019) was followed by their D-Day (2019). In the time they have been around, the only Emmerich films The Asylum haven’t copied have been Anonymous (2011), White House Down (2013) and Stonewall (2015).

In this case, Moon Crash was made around the anticipated release of Emmerich’s Moonfall (2022) – The Asylum also released another mockbuster Meteor Moon (2020) around the same time. Unfortunately for The Asylum, Moonfall ended up being a box-office non-starter, killing any attempt to climb aboard the bandwagon. That said, The Asylum’s mockbusters of Moonfall actually ended up being more entertaining than the real article was.

This was Noah Luke’s second film for The Asylum as director – he had previously worked with the company as a cinematographer. Prior to this, Luke had directed the entertaining Jungle Run (2021) and went on to make Attack on Titan (2022), Battle for Pandora (2022), Thor: God of Thunder (2022) and Doomsday Meteor (2023). The script comes from Joe Roche who has quickly become the most ingenious among the writers working at The Asylum with scripts for the aforementioned Meteor Moon along with Collision Earth (2020), Alien Conquest (2021), Devil’s Triangle (2021), Planet Dune (2021), Robotapocalypse (2021), 4 Horsemen: Apocalypse (2022), Battle for Pandora (2022), Methgator (2023) and Doomsday Meteor (2023).

I had enjoyed Noah Luke’s previous film Jungle Run and anticipated Moon Crash on the basis of another Joe Roche script. And neither of them let down on expectations. The entire film is economically contained in about three sets – at the observatory (and later out in the open desert), aboard the ship downed on The Moon, and in The Pentagon (featuring the film’s sole name actor Jeremy London as a general with very non-US Army regulation beard). The effects are of a high quality, especially during the opening scenes on The Moon.

The pleasure of Joe Roche’s scripts is always their mix of science and engineering solutions that sound almost plausible. These include plans to repurpose the mining laser used on The Moon to break-up the asteroid; the ship developing a magnetic attraction that accumulates the pieces of solar mirror around it to turn it into a giant mirror to reflect enough sunlight to burn up the meteor (something that in actuality would probably cook the crew inside); and a scheme that requires a jury-rigged EM pulse to deflect the course of the meteor into the path of the mirror array. -->

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Directed by Noah Luke

In 12 hours the moon lands on us!

A global steelworks company partners with an aerospace firm to mine the Moon. But when a drilling accident causes a giant piece of the Moon to crack off and hurtle towards Earth, the surviving space team and the head of the firm must figure out how to destroy the meteoroid before it wipes out the entire planet.

Jeremy London Tyler Christopher Pauline Egan Jamison Jones Jenny Tran Alexa Marie Anderson Marisha Shine Ricardo Herranz Azeem Vecchio Sierra Collins Joe Finfera Andrew Colford Eva Ceja Maia Sky

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Paul Bales David Michael Latt

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Joe Roche Lauren Pritchard

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Cambria Hankin

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Rob Pallatina

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David Rimawi

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Alexandra Regazzoni

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Glenn Campbell Neal Sopata Tammy Klein Wes Sargent

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Mikel Shane Prather Tim Carlos

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Natasha Kachine

The Asylum Emerald City Films

Alternative Titles

月球碎裂, 月球崩落, Crash Lunaire, 더 문: 크래쉬, アルマゲドン2022, Ay'dan Gelen Felaket

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Review by Julia Grohlo🇨🇦 🇻🇳 ★★½ 2

One day we'll have to show this kind of film to the scientific community and make a reaction video, because it'll really make them laugh. Now I know if the moon causes meteorites threatening to crash into the earth, I could save the world all by myself with a selfie pole and a Casio watch to send messages in Morse code 😂

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Review by HAL ½

It ain’t no Moonfall but we can’t always demand cinematic perfection I guess

Review by Alex Leonce ½ 3

Tedious to the fucking core (no pun intended), the Asylum has crafted another awful, low budget mockbuster, to cash in on a popular blockbuster.

If you're here for dumb fun, look away, because the film is 98% dramatic conversations, and I couldn't give a single shit for the flat stakes, flatter characters, and flattest acting/directing/writing.

Review by Foywonder ½ 1

Is there such a thing as anti-entertainment? If so, this is it. This insufferably boring Asylum mockbuster is quite literally the antithesis of why people watch movies.

NOTHING HAPPENS

A moon mining accident sends meteroids hurtling towards Earth and people discuss every conceivable aspect of the scenario, hypothesizing every potential means by which to deal with it, further verbally describing the ramifications of everything under consideration, spitballing scientific explanations as to the cause and effect of everything happening that somehow manages to always be both needlessly convoluted and simplistically vague, infrequently throwing out some lame personal anecdotes in a failed attempt to make it seem like these walking exposition cyphers might be flesh and blood humans with backstories and feelings,…

Review by Curtis ★½

On one hand, Moon Crash manages to be worse than Moonfall by every conceivable metric.

But, somehow, despite abundant and overwhelming shortcomings, I found this marginally more entertaining. It's a movie that thinks it can talk its way into being some kind of functional narrative. And while the result is a complete failure, it's an occasionally hilarious one.

A pair of bickering miners accidentally snap a Manhattan-sized chunk of the moon off, setting it on a collision course with the Earth. A trio of astronauts, an Earthbound businessman and a planetary scientist will try to stop the meteoroid from annihilating our world through perseverance, spirit and presumably other names of Mars rovers.

Plus enough technobabble for ten movies.

Review by Dustin Baker ★

The Asylum has gotten a whole hell of a lot of mileage out of their shitty wood-paneled "Pentagon" briefing room and computer terminal setup, using it in at least five films in the last two years, all shot in tight frames so you can't see the dark blankets making up the outer edges. I'm assuming the Syfy money's drying up because this shit is harkening back to their earliest days, and even worse quality. This is a film comprised of NOTHING but incessant rambling and bullshit dialog, losing you as a viewer almost instantly and never throwing you a lifeline to get you back. I had no idea what was going on after a certain point, other than a rock exploded and then pulled itself together for which I haven't the clue why.

"You did it."

"Yeah, we did it."

DID FUCKING WHAT?!

Review by chemergency ★

I guess it was inevitable that The Asylum's mockbusters would eventually converge with the actual quality of the craptastic films they're ripping-off. The natural culmination of their inexplicably-long life and and a fitting conclusion to the era of big dumb CGI-fueled blockbusters (with the exception of capeshit).

Review by Channel Donstar ½

And now we have the alway trusting Asylum to rush out a film that copies a major Hollywood film releasing the same day.

Of course this one is just as bad and cheap as all the others. Ohhhh yes this was really bad.

Skip it! Skip it! Skip it!

Review by Reece ½

This is the best they could do, huh?

I don't imagine it's impossible to make a film that is passably watchable, even with a limited budget for your effects; just push things along with as many ridiculous stakes as you can imagine, and somebody, somewhere will find some enjoyment. Instead, Moon Crash here decides to double down on the dialogue, spouting out more exposition and forced plot directions with no real atmosphere or stakes on display at any given points.

Flat direction blinds a picture that suffers from serious underacting, laughable effects and a non stop assault of pure bordeom, where every little twist only adds to the unenthused nature of my viewing experience. For a film to try to…

Review by Jimbo without the Jet-Set ½ 2

Review by Christopher Cross ½ 1

I can't see Moonfall in theaters in Canada so I was left with this...

Review by FilmFan1970 🎞 🔪 🪓 🔥🌩🧨🔍🔦🪦 ★★★

REC. of SKY SCI-FI HD @ 21:00 -08-01-24 🖥 'Moonfall Mockbuster' 'THE ASYLUM WATCH #09' Familiar Face Jeremy London'

A mockbuster of 'Moonfall' which was just a Asylum movie on a huge budget, this looked quite good and the ship on the moon was quite impressive unlike most of the other CGI. Another lucky piece of fate is the man in charge of mining on the moon which causes the meteor heading to eath has a brother who is his boss that just happens to be visiting his ex at a big telescope which she runs! That place gets hit by smaller meteors and his headquarters gets wiped out as well. Christ that was unlucky, all major cities get hit,…

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"In 12 hours the moon lands on us!" A global steel mill partners with an aerospace company to mine the moon. However, a drilling accident breaks off a huge chunk of the moon and hurtles toward Earth. The remaining members of the team in space, and the head of the steel mill, must find a way to destroy the meteoroid before it wipes out the entire planet.

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Roland Emmerich destroys the world again with “Moonfall,” but this time his heart just isn’t in it. The German nihilist blockbuster filmmaker, who has rarely met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like, has become the "master of disaster" with films like " Independence Day ," and his own global warming epic, “ The Day After Tomorrow .” But while his film “2012” in particular was overwhelming in its passion for turning mass death into a roller coaster thrill ride with two kids in the backseat, here is "Moonfall," which proves a boring apocalypse movie is worse than one fixated on how we are all doomed. 

“Moonfall” depicts the horror that would unfold if the moon were to go out of orbit and crash into the earth. Before that big bump, Earth’s gravity would be progressively out of wack, while the moon would dump debris as it gets closer. For good measure, Emmerich throws in a “ Transformers ”-type edge to the hare-brained science about why this could be happening, but that too comes with a bland imagination and execution. Don’t be confused, this movie has more worth as a comparison to Lars von Trier’s “ Melancholia ,” about a massive planet crashing into Earth, than a decent piece of entertainment.  

The American military decide that the moon, well, they gotta nuke it. But there’s something else going on with the moon—something inside it—and it’s ultimately up to three smart people to stop the moon from destroying earth, including a disgraced astronaut Brian Harper ( Patrick Wilson ), a courageous head of NASA and Brian’s fellow astronaut partner Jocinda Fowl ( Halle Berry ), and a conspiracy theorist named KC ( John Bradley ) who has long thought that the moon was a megastructure. KC finds out about this change of course and leaks it to the media, with NASA equating that there are only about three weeks left. They take off in a shuttle with eventually no crew on the ground, and it doesn't feel triumphant so much as the film trying to minimize its cast numbers. 

All three of our heroes have their personal connections that make for ho-hum on-the-ground drama: there’s Brian and his troublesome son Sonny ( Charlie Plummer ) and his ex-wife and their two girls; Jocinda and her son and her ex-husband and the foreign exchange student she makes babysit her kid (Kelly Yu); KC and his mother and his cat, Fuzz Aldrin (given an amazing close-up).  

Co-written with Harald Kloser and Spencer Cohen, “Moonfall” is a lumbering, long locomotive of one cliche attached to another, making time pass slowly even though there is so much juggling of these different one-dimensional relationships. The human stories are gratuitous themselves instead of involving us, so telegraphed in the drama of their characters. This is how a stepfather and angsty son reunite midway through the movie: “I don’t hate you.” “You know what? I’ll take it.”  

“Moonfall” suffers from other more consciously cut corners, suggesting a budget that could only include so much destruction (his previous film, "Midway," was more successful at looking less phony with similar constructs). It’s so obvious that the film's version of Colorado is a sound stage with one tiny snowy road for numerous shots; you can see how cramped the actors are, and specifically hear the contempt in Charlie Plummer’s line-reading. Working with smaller resources than his previous blockbusters, “Moonfall” constantly seems constrained by its unsubtle reliance on green screens, and the immense labor of its visual effects crews. Emmerich's blockbuster vision has come full circle: he might have inspired countless direct-to-video disaster movies with titles like “2012: Doomsday,” but now he’s made a movie that’s just as visually junky and is not inspired to be more.  

A transparent and self-amusing filmmaker, Emmerich’s sense of humanity can be found in who gives the spirited performances and who does not. In this case, it’s only KC who gets the exclamation points, to scream about how the moon is a megastructure, and eventually his awe in being proven right. (For a movie that comes in the era of Elon Musk and Space X flights, KC gets to says “I love Elon.”) But everyone else deals in periods when their experience is an exclamation point: you’ve never heard someone minimize “Oh shit, the moon is rising” until you've seen "Moonfall." It used to be weird how much Emmerich’s nihilism wanted to show destruction, but now he is bored with humanity. Even reliable forces like Wilson and Berry cannot sell what little drama the story has. 

Sometimes the film’s lackadaisical sense about the end of the world can be laugh-out-loud; notice any time that something devastating happens in the background of a shot, and how the characters in the foreground barely react to it. “Moonfall” rarely makes room for the usual interludes of destruction from previous Emmerich films; who thought we’d ever miss them this much, or his obligatory destruction of the White House. The film practically forgets that it’s dealing with an apocalypse, that all of humanity is at stake. To be fair, there is a “gravity wave” in the middle of the film, lifting carriers and tankers and bodies of water throwing them around California, and it’s an impressive feat by the visual effects artists. But the apocalypse should not feel this lifeless. 

At least we have the crackpot stuff, which shows Emmerich really flexing his wackier muscles in the third act, with an explanation about the moon that is worthy of its own History Channel series. If you’re going to invest time and money into “Moonfall,” it’s what you have earned. And it’s clearly the idea that Emmerich cares about the most with this self-assignment, as he treats it with immense seriousness and dedication, halting the whole human factor thing in the process. For fellow admirers of when filmmakers air out their zaniest passions using massive movie stars and zeros and ones, it might be amusing. The rest of "Moonfall" is a wash; it isn't even a fun-dumb movie about the end of the world.  

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Solène is stylish, unimpressed by Hayes' celebrity and has bangs so perfect they look genetically modified. And, most importantly, she's Anne Hathaway. In the power dynamics of “The Idea of You,” Hayes may be a fictional pop star but Hathaway is a very real movie star. And you don't forget it for a moment in Michael Showalter's lightly appealing showcase of the actor at her resplendent best.

“The Idea of You,” which debuts Thursday on Prime Video, is full of all the kinds of contradictions that can make a rom-com work. The highly glamorous, megawatt-smiling Hathaway is playing a down-to-earth nobody. The showbiz veteran in the movie is played by Galitzine, a less well-known but up-and-coming British actor whose performance in the movie is quite authentic. And even though the whole scenario is undeniably a glossy high-concept Hollywood fairy tale, Showalter gives it enough texture that “The Idea of You” comes off more natural and sincere than you'd expect.

The only thing that really needs to make perfect sense in a movie like “The Idea of You” is the chemistry. The film, penned by Showalter and Jennifer Westfeldt from Robinne Lee's bestseller, takes its time in the early scenes between Solène and Hayes — first at Coachella, then when he stops by her gallery — allowing their rapport to build convincingly, and giving each actor plenty of time to smolder.

Once the steamy hotel-room encounters come in “The Idea of You,” the movie has, if not swept you away, then at least ushered you along on a European trip of sex and room service. At the same time, it stays faithful to its central mission of celebrating middle-aged womanhood. The relationship will eventually cause a social media firestorm, but its main pressure point is whether Solène can stick with Hayes after her ex-husband ( Reid Scott ) cheated on her. This is a fairy tale she deserves.

While Showalter ( "The Big Sick" ) has long showed a great gift for juggling comedy and drama at once, “The Idea of You” leans more fully into wish-fulfillment romance. That can leave less to sustain the film, which has notably neutered some of the things that distinguished the book.

The May-December romance has been shrunk a little. In the book, the singer is 20. Given that Galitzine is 29 and the 41-year-old Hathaway is no one's idea of old, this is more like a July-September relationship. In the book, the daughter (Ella Rubin) is a huge admirer of the pop singer, adding to the awkwardness, but in the movie, August Moon is “so 7th grade” to her.

There are surely more interesting and funnier places “The Idea of You" could have gone. But Hathaway and Galitzine are a good enough match that, for a couple hours, it's easy to forget.

But the most convincing thing about “The Idea of You”? August Moon. The movie nails the look and sound of boy bands so well because it went straight to the source. The original songs in the film are by Savan Kotecha and Carl Falk, the producer-songwriters of, among other pop hits, “What Makes You Beautiful," One Direction's debut single.

That connection will probably only further the sense that “The Idea of You" is very nearly “The Idea of Harry Styles.” The filmmakers have distanced the movie from any real-life resemblances. But one thing is for sure: With August Moon following 4(asterisk)Town of “Turning Red” (whose songs were penned by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell ), we are living in the golden age of the fictional boy band.

“The Idea of You,” an Amazon MGM Studios release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for some language and sexual content. Running time: 115 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

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Moonfall 2: Will The Roland Emmerich Movie Get A Sequel?

R oland Emmerich is well known for his apocalypse movies, like Independence Day or The Day After Tomorrow. In 2022 on February 4th, his new movie Moonfall hit theaters.

The plot of the movie revolves around the moon getting knocked out of its orbit and threatening to crash into earth. So two astronauts , played by Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson, have to join up with a conspiracy theorist to stop this. Why a conspiracy theorist, you ask? Dunno, maybe because being a conspiracy theorist was popular that year , or something. Spoilers ahead!

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During their journey, our protagonists find something beyond their wildest imaginations! The moon is some kind of megastructure that was built by our ancestors to inhabit foreign worlds. At the end of the movie, the A.I., controlling the whole thing ends the movie with the words "let's get started". Get what started?

Many movies are getting sequels these days, and Moonfall's ending is set to hype viewers up for a continuation of the story.

Moonfall 2 Unlikely To Happen, But Not Out Of Question

I hate to break it to you, but I wouldn't bet on it . Even though Emmerich himself initially envisioned a trilogy, the movie bombed at the box office , making Lionsgate approving a sequel unlikely. This reminds us a bit of the fate of Independence Day 3, which was planned by Roland Emmerich, but never realized after Independence Day: Resurgence flopped in cinemas. Though he left the door open for a sequel just like he did in Moonfall .

It's even less likely there will be a direct sequel because Roland Emmerich has announced he's ending his career. He's said he wants to make one more movie, but it won't be Moonfall 2.

But who knows, maybe Moonfall will get a sequel any day in the future. With the movie being available on streaming services now it's getting more viewers, this might as well lead to growing interest in a sequel. If it seems profitable, I'm sure Lionsgate will at least consider it.

Another possibility would be to continue or reboot Moonfall as a series. It wouldn't be the first time that this happens, especially not for Roland Emmerich: After his movie Stargate aired on cinemas in 1994, the popular TV show Stargate: SG1 continued the story for ten seasons, with two spin-offs Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate: Universe and two more direct-to-DVD movies even expanding the franchise.

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A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth. A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth. A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth.

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• Trivia A real astronaut was on set during production as an advisor. Whenever he approached Roland Emmerich and said "That's not really possible," they told him to roll with it because "it's just a movie."
• Goofs The effect of the Moon is inconsistent throughout the film. People and cars are getting lifted by the gravitational pull while at the same time, debris of mountains hit by incoming Moon rocks fall down at full speed.

Sonny Child : I don't wanna move. I hate New Jersey.

• Crazy credits The Lionsgate, Huayi Brothers and Centropolis Entertainment logos are interspersed with footage of the Apollo 11 mission, and are all together in black and white with TV static.
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• Soundtracks Africa Performed by TOTO Written by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro (as Jeffrey Porcaro) Published by Hudman Publishing Co. Inc. and Rising Storm Music (ASCAP) Administered by Spirit Four Music (GMR) Courtesy of Columbia Records By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment

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