Early reviews for Moonfall indicated a relatively poor overall score from critics and now that the full weekend is behind us, we can look at the final score.

On Rotten Tomatoes it holds a 40% / 67% score from critics / audiences and on IMDb.com 5.3 / 10. Not awesome.

While some reviewers enjoyed it the consensus is what it is and the bad news doesn't stop there.

It just barely edged over the $10 million mark for its opening weekend.

With a budget in the $140 million region, that's going to sting.

What went wrong?

Ironically the answer might lie in one of the positive reviews.

Mark Kennedy of Associated Press had this to say, giving it 3 out 4 stars:

Emmerich’s latest is an absolutely bananas piece of big-budget filmmaking, a sci-fi-, action- and disaster-thriller that gets more crazy by the minute. It makes “Independence Day” look like “Little Women.” “My freaking brain just exploded,” says one character, and who can complain?

“Moonfall” stars Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson as one-time astronauts who have to repair their strained friendship and save Earth when the moon gets unmoored from its orbit and starts coming frighteningly closer to us, wreaking havoc.

The film adds to these two gorgeous creatures the “Game of Thrones” actor John Bradley as a pudgy conspiracy whackadoodle with irritable bowel syndrome and a cat named Fuzz Aldrin who somehow also is pressed into saving the world.

We recently lamented that Don't Look Up was much less comedic than its trailer - a phenomenon not unique to that title - and suspected that Moonfall would be in the same category.

But maybe with Moonfall Emmerich decided to dial up the comedy.

It sounds like the kind of movie we might enjoy but isn't what Emmerich is known for and what audiences have previously packed cinemas to see under his banner.

[ Main Image: Moonfall. Credit: Lionsgate via IMDb.com. ]

References

Box Office Mojo. Moonfall. (viewed February 7, 2022)

Kennedy, Mark (February 4, 2022). Review: ‘Moonfall’ is a brain-twisting, popcorny mega-blast. Associated Press.

Rotten Tomatoes. Moonfall. (viewed February 7, 2022)

Wikipedia. Moonfall (film). (viewed February 7, 2022)