Moonwalkers (2015)

After failing to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick, an unstable CIA agent must instead team up with a seedy rock band manager to develop the biggest con of all time-staging the moon landing.

Director:

Antoine Bardou-Jacquet

Writers:

Dean Craig (a film written by), Antoine Bardou-Jacquet (story by)

Stars:

Rupert Grint, Ron Perlman, Robert Sheehan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ron Perlman	...	Kidman
Rupert Grint	...	Jonny
Robert Sheehan	...	Leon
Stephen Campbell Moore	...	Derek Kaye
Eric Lampaert	...	Glenn
Kevin Bishop	...	Paul
Tom Audenaert	...	Renatus
Erika Sainte	...	Ella
Jay Benedict	...	Dickford
Kerry Shale	...	Mr. White
James Cosmo	...	Dawson
John Flanders	...	Agent Murphy
Joe Sheridan	...	Poshman
Andrew Blumenthal	...	Kozinsky
Nathaniel Martello-White	...	Mike (as Nathaniel Martello White)

Storyline

What if Apollo 11 never actually made it? What if, in reality, Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, working for the US administration? This is the premise of a totally plausible conspiracy theory that takes us to swinging sixties London, where a stubborn CIA agent will never find Kubrick but instead is forced to team up with a lousy manager of a seedy rock band to develop the biggest con of all time, in this riotous, high-tempo action-comedy.

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Plot Keywords:

moon landing | watching tv | bare butt | bare chested male | disguise | 

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Taglines:

Based on a true conspiracy theory.

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Genres:

Action | Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, graphic nudity, plentiful drug use and language

Did You Know?

Trivia

Three of the main cast (Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, and Robert Sheehan) also played prominent roles in 2011's 'The Season of the Witch'

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Goofs

No better place to brief for a top secret plot than in the window seat of a public jet airliner.

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Quotes

Kidman: It sounds like a rather large operation. How are we going to keep this secret?
Colonel Dickford: We'll do what the Egyptians did.Bury the architects inside the pyramid.

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Connections

References A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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Soundtracks

Fortunate Son
Written by John Fogerty
Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Courtesy of Concord Music Group

User Reviews

It won't take you to the moon but it will take you to just above the stratosphere.

The poster, the cast and the plot made it seem like it could be an amazing movie, albeit it's far from amazing it's still entertaining.

I expected a more realistic approach on tackling one of the greatest conspiracy theories of our time, the one that is about the moonlanding in 1969 being staged (in order to beat the Russians to the task so they would still be seen as the most powerful country in the world).

A theory that I actually believe could be a true one but I won't dig too deep into that because if that actually did happen how it happen would most likely differ substantially from the plot of this movie as this one is solely about the comedy... and the action, which there was plentyful of, to the point that it might get too bloody for some sensitive viewers.

A lot of sex, drugs and rock n roll as well.

The acting is fine, Rupert Grint does really well in comedies as he's proved before with the slightly better 'WILD TARGET (2010)' which also got him entangled with gangsters.

Robert Sheehan I didn't even recognize as the bearded hippie-friend of Grint, despite 'THE ROAD WITHIN' with Sheehan being one of my favorite movies of 2015, so yeah he was good too.

Ron Pearlman does his thing as always.

Gets a little too druggy at times perhaps and the pre-credit montage was a little too much but overall yeah solid enough entertainment for sure.

Also the movie clocks in at 97 minutes not 107 minutes like IMDb lists it at.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

France Belgium

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 January 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Moonwalkers

Filming Locations:

Belgium

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$92,365

Company Credits

Production Co:

Partizan Films, Nexus Factory, Potemkino

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1