In the Shadow of the Moon

MOVIE #1,047 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.04.23 Happy 4th of July! In honor of the holiday, I bring you a double feature of mostly subpar American movies that both begin with the words “In the…” Why?“ HAHAHA. You ask WHY? Without getting too into the weeds here re whether or not all the time travel rules totally make sense, I will say that I appreciated that this movie did its best as far as making the plot mostly make sense (even the racial protest segment — which seemed so obnoxiously shoehorned in for no reason at the time — ends up playing into the bigger narrative). Although, the Civil War analogy suggesting that the Civil War was unnecessary (?!) in a film that needlessly played with contemporary racial politics is a wild position! So, yeah, it doesn’t totally come together to say the least, but they tried.

But this is mostly just an instantly forgettable piece of sci-fi Netflix slop that I don’t really recommend. One thing I kept coming back to was how strange and awful all the Philly accents were in this. Poor Michael C. Hall, he was really struggling lol…

He did redeem himself with that "Okay” a little bit though — Hey, at least he was trying, which you can’t say for the rest of the cast. What I’m trying to say is kudos to the cast of Mare of Eastown, maybe? Kudos is probably the wrong word.

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In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed by Jim Mickle and written by Gregory Weidman and Geoff Tock. It stars Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, and Michael C. Hall. It had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest before it came out on Netflix. It was released on September 21, 2019.