MOON (DVD Review) - 15/2/10

Desperately wanting to work with Sam Rockwell Writer/Director Duncan Jones wrote this specifically for the actor himself. Quite a nifty little piece it is too for an independent film and harks back to the days of the 197o's when most films used models instead of CGI - So trying to keep everything practical gives this film quite a depth of it's own something akin to 'Silent Running' in it's isolation and model-making. Filming entirely on an enclosed set also gives it that feeling of claustrophobia as well and Gerty (The robot base command - voiced by Kevin Spacey) has an air of HAL about him? Rockwell's character of Sam Bell the sole occupant of a mining base on the Moon carries out his daily solitary tasks checking instrumentation and logging results. Getting the occasional message from his wife on Earth he only has two weeks more of a three year contract before he can return to Earth. Checking out a problem with one of the mining harvesters he gets distracted and has an accident. Awaking back in sickbay he finds the base on lockdown and realising something is wrong he escapes the base and returns to his crashed vehicle where he finds an unknown crewman then things take a strange twist?

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