MOON
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Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is impending the execution of his 3-year-long stipulate with Lunar Industries, mining Earth’s first source of appetite on the dim side of the moon. Alone with usually the base’s observant mechanism Gerty (voiced by Oscar-Winner Kevin Spacey, 1999 Best Actor, American Beauty) as his solitary companion, Bell’s lengthened siege has taken the toll. His usually couple to the outward universe comes from heavenly body messages from his mother and immature daughter. He longs to lapse home, but a distressing collision on the lunar aspect leads to a unfortunate find that contributes to his flourishing clarity of mental disorder and dislocation so most miles divided from home. Moon is an engrossing, intelligent sci-fi thriller that ranks with genre classics similar to 2001: A Space Odyssey.Amazon.com
Science novella can ring most genres–suspense, horror, action-adventure, romance, even comedy–but executive Duncan Jones’s Moon doesn’t fit orderly in to any of them. This smart, provocative movie has no aliens or cool spaceships, and the goods (mostly consisting of indication vehicles logging opposite the lunar surface) aren’t all that special; instead, the element is character- and story-driven, centering on an excellent, multilayered opening by Sam Rockwell. The stage is a little unlimited point in the future. Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an worker of Lunar Industries, the association obliged for mining a alloy appetite source called Helium-3, that is critical to Earth’s efforts to retreat a critical appetite predicament and can usually be found on the far side of the Moon. Sam is all by himself, and as he nears the finish of his three-year contract, the waste is starting to get to him (“Three years is a prolonged haul,” he says. “Way, way, approach as well long. I’m articulate to myself on a unchanging basis”); his usually hit with his mother and daughter behind home comes by the occasional video messages he exchanges with them, whilst his solitary communication on the Moon is with GERTY 3000, a mechanism uttered by Kevin Spacey (and an viewable together to 2001: A Space Odyssey‘s HAL 9000). Things begin to go severely laterally when Sam crashes his car whilst out inspecting one of the hulk Helium-3 harvesters. He comes to in the bottom infirmary, clearly nothing the worse for the wear; but an unnerving warn awaits him when he goes behind to check out the collision site, and the ensuing complications take up the rest of the movie. Fans of 2001, Solaris, and alternative intelligent sci-fi will suffer reckoning out what’s going on; others will find it slow-moving and tedious. Either way, Moon, that was done fast and on a comparatively low budget, is well value a look. –Sam Graham
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I seriously can’t believe the reviews I’m reading here. I never walk out of a movie, but when I saw Moon in the theater I came closer than I ever have before. The plot is tedious and predictable, with several aspects that make absolutely no sense and are never even attempted to be explained (ghostly lady walking around on the surface of the moon?) Also, I understand that this was an independent film, but the production values and set pieces are laughable. This movie is so bad that I actually told people to go see it as a practical joke. Anyone with a sense of what makes good sci-fi, or a good story in general, will have nothing but contempt for this steaming pile of excrement on celluloid (or blu-ray, in this case).
Rating: 1 / 5
There really is no engaging plot or appealing story line. Hardcore Science Fiction fans with a brain, won’t know what will happen next or why it is happening, nor will they care.
MOON (2009) might have been an engaging if (unintentionally) short series but as a stand alone Science Fiction story it was underdeveloped and repulsively tiresome but not really entrancing enough to watch for that reason. The movie reminded me of Silent Running (1971) if Sam Rockwell had been a drugged out Moon-naut, so that makes it kind of worth watching for alluring, repellent Science Fiction comedy. Was this really made in 2009? The clothes would point more towards 1988, the production lacks much science and technology credibility.
To be honest, I had to double-check to make sure that this film wasn’t just some movie add-on to a larger loathsome Sci-Fi series, but to no avail. Moon (not sure why its called that since it takes place on Jupiter) seems like a bunch of independent Twilight Zone scenes put together to hopefully form a cohesive story, but fails at it.
Not something I would suggest to watch.
Rating: 1 / 5
My only question. No multi-lunar corporation would send one dude up there by himself. The premise is absurd. Better a film about the isolation we feel here now on this planet. Called WEB.
Rating: 1 / 5
This movie didn’t really do anything for me. It was just a variation of the theme of a person isolated from other people. It didn’t even bring anything new about the theme to the table. This type of situation has been done so many times before (Castaway, Robinson Crusoe, I Am Legend, etc.)in ways that I thought were more interesting. Copying HAL from 2001 didn’t help in the originality department, either. I have to admit I couldn’t get into the movie from the beginning because I couldn’t believe they would send ONE person into space for three years- ONE person! After that, I just couldn’t get into it (so I probably missed/forgot some things). I also think that a clone of someone wouldn’t have such a different personality from the original person if that clone had only been in that kind environment. If they can clone him, why don’t they just have a bunch of clones up there? They’d get things done in a lot shorter time than three years. Also, why did it take him almost three years to go nearly insane? I probably would have lost it after three days.
This movie was directed by David Bowie’s son.
Rating: 1 / 5
Moon is an exercise in meditation and claustrophobia. You’d better have a mad crush on Sam Rockwell because that’s all you get: Sam Rockwell wandering around his ugly spaceship talking to his computer (voiced by the ever annoying Kevin Spacey). The mise en scène is as boring as the plot. Three years up there and the guy doesn’t hang up a poster or a picture of his kids? I wasn’t expecting throw pillows, but some sign of human touch would have been nice. Sam Rockwell’s character is not interesting enough to carry the film, and watching him try to figure out what’s happening is low on the intrigue scale. When ground control is down, and someone that looks just like you appears in your spaceship, and your only friend is a computer, you’re screwed. Does it really take 97 minutes to figure that out? I enjoy slow, cerebral films, but Moon was just slow. If you aren’t a big science fiction fan, this film isn’t doing the genre any favors, and will doubtfully win you over. If you like your films slow and spaceshippy you might fall in love. Two Yawning Stars.
Rating: 2 / 5