Sam (Sam Rockwell from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, Galaxy Quest) plays an astronaut nearing the end of his three year mission on the moon. Sam’s only company while there is the computer GERTY (Kevin Spacey from Superman Returns, K-PAX), a less malevolent, not so omnipresent version of HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Sam’s assignment is tedious and he has no live contact with Earth, only recorded messages. While on a repair mission outside the base, Sam crashes his moon vehicle and it looks like the end of him, but then he wakes up back in the base. Sam soon realises that is situation is not what he thought.
If you have read, or watched a lot of science fiction, the movie will hold no surprises, but it is a well made, well paced, piece of cinema. Rockwell virtually does a one man show with a character reminiscent of Bruce Dern’s in Silent Running. There were a few plot holes in the story, but that doesn’t prevent Moon being a more believable piece of science fiction than most other recent efforts.
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