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Moon (2009)

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Reviews Counted:162

Fresh:144

Rotten:18

Average Rating:7.3/10

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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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

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.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
07/10/09
Rene Rodriguez
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald

Moon is darn good science fiction.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
07/10/09
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

This eerie drama harks back to sci-fi movies of the late 60s and early 70s that explored inner as well as outer space.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/10/09
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

Storywise, Moon fails to live up to the promise of its premise. There's plenty of atmosphere, but little gravity.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
07/10/09
Dan Zak
Dan Zak
Washington Post

In brief, stark moments, Duncan Jones' movie makes plain how awful it is to be so solitary, how utterly impossible it is to consider this existence a "living."

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
07/10/09
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

All this wouldn't matter if Sam Rockwell didn't anchor this cleverly claustrophobic spectacle.

Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | comment Comment
07/10/09
Michael Sragow
Michael Sragow
Baltimore Sun

If Jones felt any first-film jitters, they are nowhere to be seen in his debut film, the technical proficiencies of which belie the relatively low budget.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
07/10/09
Kimberly Jones
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle

Moon is, quite simply, an astonishingly good debut, supremely confident and assured.

Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | comment Comment
07/09/09
Brandon Fibbs
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com

In much the same way we take for granted the fact that science drives our lives in countless and invisible ways, Moon takes a satisfyingly pragmatic approach to the extraordinary.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
07/09/09
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

What makes this science-fiction/thriller really work is that it favors a more cerebral style of storytelling. There are clear nods to such sci-fi classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
07/09/09
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Universal questions: How is it that Sam Rockwell, one of the finest actors on the planet, has yet to get the notice he deserves? And how could you miss this stellar feature?

Full Review Source: Indie Movies Online | comment Comment
07/09/09
Kimberly Gadette
Kimberly Gadette
Indie Movies Online

For a 'paranoid thriller' to work, the paranoia has to rise and rise until a climax at the finale, not give away the game halfway in.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment 11 Comments
07/09/09
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Ultimately, Moon isn't quite the transcendent experience that it clearly strives to be. But as ambitious science fiction, it achieves liftoff.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
07/09/09
Calvin Wilson
Calvin Wilson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Duncan Jones's intelligent, hugely moving debut deftly resurrects a mutinously old-fashioned style of SF.

Full Review Source: SFX Magazine | comment Comment
07/09/09
Nick Setchfield
Nick Setchfield
SFX Magazine

Esoteric and a little frightening, a serious-minded sci-fi rumination for viewers who strive for more out of their genre pieces than pyrotechnics and jive-talking scraps of metal.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
07/09/09
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Comparisons to "2001" or even Ridley Scott's "Alien" aren't far-fetched.

Full Review Source: Charlotte Weekly | comment Comment
07/08/09
Sean O'Connell
Sean O'Connell
Charlotte Weekly

Raises all the right and most interesting questions about what it means to be human in the manner of some of the best science fiction.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
07/08/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Compellingly haunting human tale of survival that just happens to be set in outer space.

Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate | comment Comment
07/07/09
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate

Moon is first-rate science fiction, tackling such issues as identity, individuality and the effects of isolation on the psyche and the soul.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
07/03/09
Bill Goodykoontz
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
 
 
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