Review: Moon (MAJOR Spoilers)
Jul. 10th, 2010 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalSummary: With only two weeks to go in his three year contract, Sam Bell (played by Sam Rockwell) is a lonely astronaut looking forward to finally getting home from the Moon to see his wife and the baby daughter he's never met. Then he suffers an accident when he's out inspecting a He3 mining unit (yes, I know James but they need a reason for him to be there) and wakes up in the base's infirmary. Then he starts putting two and two together and finds out something the mining company would rather he didn't know.
Moon is a tight little film. It's essentially a one-man show even after Sam finds his previous clone. Though there are about four other characters they all get less than ten minutes of screen time through video feeds, the exception being the base's surprisingly helpful AI/robot GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey, not that you'd know it). It doesn't waste much time dragging out the mystery either, which is sensible. Anyone who's read or watched any science fiction in the past 40 years can guess what the twist is. Instead it becomes a character drama as New Sam and Old Sam try to comes to terms with everything they knew being a lie.
Most of tension in the film revolves around how the hell the two Sams are going to resolve the situation, though if you haven't figured it out by Act Three you really aren't paying attention. Otherwise you can enjoy fooling yourself into thinking GERTY is a stereotypical Evil AI, when it turns out he really is all that he appears.
Recommended for cerebral sci-fi fans.
Moon is a tight little film. It's essentially a one-man show even after Sam finds his previous clone. Though there are about four other characters they all get less than ten minutes of screen time through video feeds, the exception being the base's surprisingly helpful AI/robot GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey, not that you'd know it). It doesn't waste much time dragging out the mystery either, which is sensible. Anyone who's read or watched any science fiction in the past 40 years can guess what the twist is. Instead it becomes a character drama as New Sam and Old Sam try to comes to terms with everything they knew being a lie.
Most of tension in the film revolves around how the hell the two Sams are going to resolve the situation, though if you haven't figured it out by Act Three you really aren't paying attention. Otherwise you can enjoy fooling yourself into thinking GERTY is a stereotypical Evil AI, when it turns out he really is all that he appears.
Recommended for cerebral sci-fi fans.
