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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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Moon does something extraordinary: It seems familiar and derivative, yet upends your expectations about science fiction and surprises you over and over.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
06/09/09
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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"In an age when most big-budget science fiction films are made by people with no respect for science or fiction, Moon is a welcome pleasure.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
06/09/09
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Cinematical

Rockwell digs deep, dredging up a variety of emotions as these two versions of the same man.

Full Review Source: Hollywood & Fine | comment 2 Comments
06/08/09
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
Hollywood & Fine

An intelligent and improbably touching film that is atmospheric as hell and never once feels fake or forced.

Full Review Source: Dread Central | comment Comment
06/08/09
Uncle Creepy
Uncle Creepy
Dread Central

An assured, mesmerizing tale of intergalactic loneliness, self-inquiry, and man's innate, enduring hunger for life.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
06/08/09
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

"Moon" is the best sci-fi movie to come along in a generation or two.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment 5 Comments
06/04/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Should be enthusiastically greeted by serious sci-fi devotees, because it's a smart story that doesn't spell everything out but isn't maddeningly ambiguous, either.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
06/02/09
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.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

Take the entrancing, all-white production design and thrilling score of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the psychology of Solaris and the energy-mining subplot of Outland, and you have Moon, an ethereal and philosophic new entry into th

Full Review Source: Manhattan Movie Magazine | comment Comment
05/06/09
Marlow Stern
Marlow Stern
Manhattan Movie Magazine

Moon is definitely one of the better science fiction movies to come out since Children of Men and Sunshine.

Full Review Source: Buzzine Magazine | comment 4 Comments
04/03/09
Staci Layne Wilson
Staci Layne Wilson
Buzzine Magazine

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

One of the most compelling sci-fi films of the past 20 years.

Full Review Source: FEARnet | comment Comment
02/02/09
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
FEARnet

Jones displays such a complete command of his narrative that it is hard to believe this is his first feature.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
01/22/09
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
FilmStew.com

The amazing visuals and sound design (make) the movie so riveting, but its ability to let Rockwell shine with such a brilliant and rounded performance will probably be appreciated more.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
01/17/09
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

Moon manages to be both derivative and deliberately rebellious in its treatment of sci-fi tropes. Moon is a story that digs deep into the traumas of people being people.

Full Review Source: SpoutBlog | comment Comment
01/16/09
Karina Longworth
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog

If there's still an audience for old-school, ideas-driven allegorical science fiction, it will undoubtedly find much to cheer for and perhaps a bit to laugh at in first-time director Duncan Jones' ambitious if slightly uneven debut Moon.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
01/16/09
Ray Greene
Ray Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

Moon won't disappoint, but it's not likely to stick with you either.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
01/16/09
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com
 
 
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