Moon (2009)

Director: Duncan Jones

Starring: Sam Rockwell & Kevin Spacey

More Info: IMDB

Tagline: The last place you'd ever expect to find yourself

Plot: Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.



My Rating: 9/10

Would I watch it again? So far...3 times and counting

Where do I fucking begin? It's brilliant. It's one of the most remarkable pieces of sci-fi cinema to come along in the past thirty years. It very much feels like the kind of science fiction that we got in the 1970s pre-STAR WARS. I first saw this late last year on a double bill with LET THE RIGHT ONE IN which just about blew my mind. Both films require your attention and they both deliver intelligent genre cinema in spades.

I LOVE the model work. It's has a brilliance and realism that we aren't getting with CGI...yet. Growing up in the 70s I long for movies these days to NOT use the computer so much and get back to real, hands-on models. Sure there's things that have to be CGI but there's something to be said about real in-camera special effects. And oh how I miss stop-motion animation. Sigh.

Anyway, this is a tour-de-force for Rockwell and it's a fucking crime he wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award. Fuck. This film didn't receive a single nomination...AT ALL! I'm stupified. Just look at all of the other awards it has won. Oh, and Clint Mansell's score is pitch perfect. Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie) knocks this one out of the park. Here's hoping he can continue to deliver the goods in the proposed trilogy he's said he'd like to film.