Moon (2009)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 182
Fresh: 163 | Rotten: 19
Boosted by Sam Rockwell's intense performance, Moon is a compelling work of science-fiction, and a promising debut from director Duncan Jones.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 8
Boosted by Sam Rockwell's intense performance, Moon is a compelling work of science-fiction, and a promising debut from director Duncan Jones.
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An astronaut miner extracting the precious moon gas that promises to reverse the Earth's energy crisis nears the end of his three-year contract, and makes an ominous discovery in this psychological sci-fi film starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. For three long years, Sam Bell has dutifully harvested Helium 3 for Lunar, a company that claims it holds the key to solving humankind's energy crisis. As Sam's contract comes to an end, the lonely astronaut looks forward to returning to his wife and
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Start calculating the costs to Lunar Industries of its singular form of devaluing, and Moon's central premise stops making sense.
Top CriticA well-assembled sci-fi thriller.
Moon actually gets a little dull in the later reels, just when it should be peaking in mystery and tension.
An eccentric sci-fi which cleverly deconstructs the mythology of the Star Treks and Star Wars which have colonised the future of our imaginations with their glamour, self-importance and operatic sound tracks.
The film is not entirely logical, but it raises pleasing questions and looks beautiful.
Most contemporary sci-fi movies come on with all CGI-guns blazing, trying to blow the roof off the theater. Moon settles for trying to blow your mind instead.
Intriguing, imaginative, and thematically ambitious, Moon gives ample proof that Jones is a serious talent, pushing his concepts into intellectually and spiritually challenging territory.
It's a film that won't fail to move or excite anyone who's ever cast their eye skywards and let themselves wonder.
Sam Rockwell should have been nominated for Best Actor at least twice.
Someday, Rockwell will get his Oscar due, I have no doubt. But I bet that when that day comes, lots of movie lovers will look back and say, 'But it should have happened for Moon.'
A throwback to the golden era of 1970s sci-fi, Moon is a long overdue and morally relevant antidote to the overblown bombast of todays science fiction.
Moon is an old-fashioned sci-fi movie in the best sense: far more psychological drama than space opera, dispensing with overweening CGI and loud flashy action sequences while harking back to subtler, more ideas-driven entries in the genre.
Evocative, riveting, and ultimately contemporary in a roundabout way, Moon is a superb mood piece, sublimely cradled by Jones, filtered through tireless work from star Sam Rockwell.
Despite the modest resources, 'Moon' is so visually astonishing that it almost looks like it was shot on location on Earth's oldest satellite.
Out of this world. A story that could easily have been from the early days of science fiction. It's a film that has a make-or-break lead role, and Sam Rockwell makes it an incredible journey. Paul Chambers, CNN.
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A lusciously slow trip, recalling familiar old tones while also adding its own unique touches.
a puzzle with a solution that is elegant yet savage
Sure, he's the son of David Bowie, but it's far more illuminating to learn that he got a degree in philosophy before turning to film...
Contemplates a future full of potential and yet robbed of hope, an era where the worst malfunction technology can suffer is to simply function too well for its own good.
Moon entertains by posing a puzzle whose solution opens into disturbing existential truths and paradoxes.
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- Sam Bell: I've set your computer to reboot the second I've blasted off.
- Gerty: Okay, Sam.
- Sam Bell: Thanks for all your help, Gerty. I wish I could say I was going to miss you, buddy, but to be honest, I can't wait to get away from here.
- Gerty: I understand, Sam. I hope life is everything you remember it to be.
- Sam Bell: Thanks. Are you
- Gerty: Of course. The new Sam and I will be back to our programming as soon as I have finished rebooting.
- Sam Bell: Gerty, I'm not programmed.
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- Sam Bell: Why are there so many of them?
- Sam Bell: The cryo pod in the Return Vehicle is an incinerator.
- Sam Bell: What?
- Sam Bell: We don?t go home. We?re burned to death up there. Then the company wakes up a new one. Every three years. Like clock work.
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- Sam Bell: Gerty, am I a clone?
- Gerty: Yes, Sam.
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- Gerty: We could run some tests. [a beat] I haven?t reported anything to central, Sam. They don't know you were recovered alive from the accident.
- Sam Bell: Recovered alive? What do you mean? Why haven't you reported to central?
- Gerty: I'm here to keep you safe, Sam. I want to help you. Are you hungry?
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- Gerty: Sam, what is it?
- Sam Bell: Something doesn't feel right, that's all.
- Gerty: Sam, it might help to talk about it.
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- Sam Bell: Wake me up when it's quitting time.
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