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Moon (2009)

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Reviews Counted:157

Fresh:140

Rotten:17

Average Rating:7.4/10

Consensus: Boosted by Sam Rockwell's intense performance, Moon is a compelling work of science-fiction, and a promising debut from director Duncan Jones.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language.

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Jun 12, 2009 Limited

Box Office: $4,785,434

Synopsis: It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a... It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive.

Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.

Suddenly, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.

Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a “support crew” on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company plans. --© Sony Pictures Classics [More]

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey

Director: Duncan Jones

Director: Duncan Jones
Screenwriter: Mark Bowden, Nathaniel Parker
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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Co-writer/director Duncan Jones’ debut feature Moon is a modest but nonetheless exciting bit of (derivative) speculative fiction.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment Comment
06/17/09
Simon Abrams
Simon Abrams
New York Press

Director Duncan Jones also taps into the visual style of Silent Running, which was directed by special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull. Taking his cue from Trumbull, Jones creates a vivid but far from perfect futuristic world.

Full Review Source: KPBS.org | comment Comment
06/18/09
Beth Accomando
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

A smart futuristic tale, blending paranoia, drama and humour.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
07/17/09
Mark Adams
Mark Adams
Sunday Mirror [UK]

A science fiction movie based on actual ideas.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
06/12/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Psychedelic sci-fi? Glam rock goes off-world? No: wordy and overwrought like a radio play in space.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment 6 Comments
07/17/09
Nigel Andrews
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

Essentially a one-man, two character piece, "Moon" could be an old "Twilight Zone" episode nurtured into a feature.

Full Review Source: Seanax.com | comment Comment
07/02/09
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seanax.com

A sad but clever science-fiction exercise about a man working alone on the Moon, with nothing but a talking computer and tape-recorded calls back to Earth to keep him sane.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
05/20/09
Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
Film Journal International

A throwback to the relatively thoughtful, adult-oriented science-fiction films that briefly were in vogue in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
07/13/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Moon is closer to what die-hards expect when they hear the term 'sci-fi,' and its existence reminds us that serious movies within this genre are not dead -- they're just hiding.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
07/02/09
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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[Duncan Jones] sets out to reclaim the humanity in a genre that's been overtaken by special effects and the opportunity to spin-off toys and videogames. He succeeds.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
06/11/09
Geoff Berkshire
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com

This excellent little science fiction film is a welcome throwback to an earlier era, when filmmakers used the canvas afforded by outer space and/or the future to explore ideas about the human condition.

Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment Comment
06/15/09
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
Cinefantastique

This is a defiantly British film. It’s one we can be proud of – in moderation.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
07/17/09
Matt Bochenski
Matt Bochenski
Little White Lies

What is better than a film starring Sam Rockwell? How about a film starring two Sam Rockwells! That do it for you? Because it did it for me.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
03/17/09
Whitney Borup
Whitney Borup
Film Threat

Moon has heart, brains and a sense of humor, not to mention some nifty model-based special effects ... and a blockbuster performance by Sam Rockwell...

Full Review Source: Playback:stl | comment Comment
07/10/09
Sarah Boslaugh
Sarah Boslaugh
Playback:stl

A heartfelt, if self-consciously derivative drama of human loneliness.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment 1 Comment
07/17/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

An exquisite gem of a science-fiction picture... pitched squarely at the patient, intelligent adults in the audience who want to have a good think.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
06/24/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Astutely imagined as a futuristic thriller with formidable impact--a dark and well thought out moonscape in what we may hope is pure fantasy.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
06/22/09
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

With Ziggy Stardust for a father, Major Tom for an uncle and, presumably, the spiders from Mars for assorted in-laws, is it any wonder that Duncan Jones chose a science fiction project to mark his feature film debut?

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
07/14/09
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

A compelling low-budget sci-fi drama about a lonely astronaut on the moon who faces one conundrum after another as he tries to cope with the changes in his life and destiny.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
06/11/09
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

There's a marvelous sense of isolation in the picture's cold, aloof setting and classical, still frames.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
07/25/09
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly
 
 
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November 27, 2009: Duncan Jones Reteams With Kevin Spacey
'Moon' director Duncan Jones and the movie's computer voice, Kevin Spacey, have reteamed for a couple of advertisements currently airing on British TV. The commercials, embedded... More...

October 08, 2009: Duncan Jones talks Moon, Sam Rockwell, and Mute
Space. Once film's final frontier, over the years sci-fi has sometimes been the domain of cliche and inferior riffs on past glories. All the more surprising, then, to discover a... More...

September 15, 2009: Concept Art for Moon Director Duncan Jones' Mute Opens in new window
Director Duncan Jones, whose Moon has gone down as one of the finest sci-fi films of the year, has posted concept art for his next film, a thriller entitled Mute. Like Blade... More...

July 20, 2009: Five Favourite Films with Duncan Jones
Duncan Jones has done the impossible -- tell a smart, engaging and entertaining sci-fi story on a modest budget. In Britain. As his debut feature film. No wonder everyone's... More...

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