Culture news This sci-fi disaster film with its crazy concept was a huge failure at the cinema: it is available for free on TF1+
Completely shunned upon its release, this science fiction film with Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson is available for free on TF1+.
A sci-fi disaster film on TF1+
TF1+, a new home for free films available for streaming, is offering a newcomer on its platform: Moonfall, a film released in 2022 which lives up to its name very well since it takes as its setting an America which fears the collapse of the Moon on Earth, the latter having been mysteriously propelled out of its orbit. Two NASA astronauts team up with a conspiracy theorist to carry out a seemingly impossible mission and incidentally lift the veil on state secrets. Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley star. This is a film by Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, a big fan of disaster stories.
About Moonfall, Le Parisien wrote at the time that he “does not shine with its realism, but with its phenomenal mastery of scenes that are both spectacular and anxiety-inducing”when Ecran Large was more severe: “Long, ugly and laborious, Moonfall explodes in mid-air like a best of the worst of the disaster film, and of Roland Emmerich’s cinema.” Imagine also that the film dethroned 2012 and Armageddon in the ranking of the 10 most ridiculous feature films with regard to respect for the laws of physics according to NASA. “I thought Armageddon had a stranglehold on this crown, but apparently that’s not the case“, said astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (a key figure in science in the United States as well as director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York) one day on the podcast The Jess Cagle Show.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the press score is just 35%, with critics agreeing that “Moonfall is so bad it’s good or just plain bad, depending on your tolerance for B-movies, but either way, this is an Emmerich disaster thriller, through and through. “. Generally speaking, the film was shunned by the public and went relatively unnoticed.
What’s good on TF1+?
As a reminder, the TF1+ service, which has the particularity of offering free – with advertising – more than 15,000 hours of programs, has been offering for several months the viewing of its flagship entertainment programs as well as a fine selection of blockbusters and more anonymous films. Among the latest additions to see, you can find the suspense series The Jacob Barber Affair just like romantic comedy And if it was true worn by Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. Jean-Claude Van Damme is also starring in two films to see: The blood of the cartel as well as Revenge under the skin. You can also enjoy a slew of more or less good French comedies, with He already has your eyes, Treasure And Mercato.