Moonfall Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

Downs...

6. The TERRIBLE Dialogue

Moonfall's script was co-written by Emmerich himself, his regular co-writer and composer Harald Kloser, and The Expendables 4's co-writer Spenser Cohen.

Those credits certainly set expectations appropriately, as what the trio deliver is absolutely befitting their other work, particularly where dialogue is concerned.

There are so many toe-curlingly awful lines throughout this film, which the cast admittedly deserves credit for trying to munch through with a straight face.

It's as though most of the spoken word was hastily typed out over a boozy weekend with the intent to punch it up through the drafting process, a process which may never have happened.

Everything that comes out of the characters' mouths feels like a first draft: the exposition is groan-inducingly robotic, and even basic concepts of character development are espoused in wooden and unnatural ways.

There are certainly times where the absurd science-jargon rouses a laugh, but those moments are sadly all-too-rare.