Moon Review

MOON

  A film by Duncan Jones
  Sony Pictures Classics
   Starring
   Sam Rockwell
    Kevin Spacey

      Reviewed by Carl Macki

SaSam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an angry lonely astronaut caretaker at a moon base run by Lunar Industries, a company that has been harvesting helium isotope 3, which is by now (some unspecified time in the future) a vital component of the Earth's energy needs.

 He is finishing up a three year tour of duty, and his only company is robot at the base (voice by Kevin Spacey). The live telecommunications link to Easth is broken, and the company never fixed it. He can only receive messages indirectly, relayed through Jupiter. After a ceash in a lunar explorer with one of the robotic harvesters, he barely makes it back to the base to recover from his injuries, only to meet another version of himself. That's when things get really interested in this instant sci fi classic, directed by Duncan Jones (aka Zowie Bowie).
 

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