Culture news This sci-fi disaster film with a crazy concept was a huge failure at the cinema: it is available for free on TF1+
Publié le 18/03/2024 à 12:30
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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 it “does not shine through its realism, but through its phenomenal mastery of scenes that are both spectacular and anxiety-provoking”, while Ecran Large was more severe: “Long, ugly and laborious, Moonfall explodes in full flight 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,” once said astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (a key figure in science in the United States as well as the director from the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York) 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 bad depends 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 as well as the romantic comedy And If It Were True carried by Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. Jean-Claude Van Damme is also starring in two must-see films: Blood of the Cartel and Vengeance Under the Skin. You can also enjoy a slew of more or less good French comedies, with Il aja dit vos yeux, Trésor and Mercato.
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