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Moon

26th July 2009

Moon is a very difficult movie to explain without giving away any of the plot, so really all I give a way is the set up to the movie.

Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an employee of Lunar industries, he has a three year contract to work at their station on the moon, where he is collecting helium-3 and sending it back to Earth for fuel. He is the only person at the station other than GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey), an intelligent computer who helps with Sam’s daily duties.

With no direct communication back to Earth because the real-time link has broken, GERTY is Sam’s only ‘company’. At the beginning of the film Sam is coming to the end of his three year contract, he is struggling with the loneliness and isolation of no human contact. Sam is looking forward to going home to see his family assuming nothing goes wrong…

I have to say I’m neither a huge Sci-fi fan or Sam Rockwell fan but I thought this was a great film. Sam Rockwell does a great job of carrying the film almost single handed, with good support from Kevin Spacey as GERTY a computer very reminiscent of HAL’s role in 2001. The movie has many twists and turns and the 1 hour 37 minutes whizzed by very quickly. I was left with only one doubt about the movie as I left the cinema, but by discussing it here I would spoil the whole concept of the movie (which I don’t want to do). Overall though Moon is one of the best sci-fi movies I’ve seen recently and shows that you don’t have to spend huge sums off money on CGI to make a good movie. Well worth a watch.

More information at IMDB