Why the fuck should you watch “Moonwalkers”?
• You know that landing on the Moon was all fake!
• You have been in war and have PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder). This movie actually teaches how to cope with it and even to get cured.
• You like tits.
• You have always wondered where Ron disappeared after the last Harry Potter movie. No, I didn’t mean Perlman, I meant Rupert Grint from the Ed Sheeran song Lego House. Yes, he’s great in this movie, but I will not talk about him at all in this review. Don’t believe me? Well, I guess then you just have to read and see yourself.
In life you like simple pleasures of tits, drugs and bloody action? If so, look no further, this is a movie for you. The movie takes place in the 1960’s, when USA and Soviet Union were both rushing to be the first on the Moon. At the beginning of the movie the shuttle from USA is launching, but nobody is certain if it can actually make the trip.
Kidman (Ron Perlman) is an aging CIA agent, who gets a new assignment. It’s not an usual assignment - it’s weird, questionable, but has to be done (You know like the things you have to do, to keep your marriage intact). Since Kidman is also a Vietnam War veteran, he has PTSD, that makes his everyday life just a little bit harder. And now he can’t go and calmly retire yet, but has to go and do his job….That means getting Stanley Kubrick to film a fake Moon landing in 7 days and then to fool the whole world with that. Of course fate has other plans and everything starts to go wrong from the very start.
This low budget movie is surprisingly well made, the plot feels whole, acting is top notch and both main characters have a decent arc and mental growth. The action is brutal and simple, but at the same time believable because the movie takes place in the 60’s. Back then there were no supersoldier shit nor kung-fu agents. There were good old “beating enemies with a shovel and having sexual intercourses with hippies under the influence of some substances” -agents. Good simple fun.
Why the fuck you shouldn’t watch “Moonwalkers”?
• You are expecting an educational movie about how to do the Michael Jackson’s moonwalk.
• You are a serious scientist and have had enough of this flat earth, aliens built the pyramids, real love exists, and never landing on the moon nonsense.
• You watch only Oscar-worthy movies.
• You are Neil Armstrong. Yes, that guy who was (a l l e g e d l y) first man on the Moon.