That's No Death Star!

Alright press, we get it, Director Duncan Jones is the son of David Bowie, get over it, he's not gone out and made his name through his father, no, he's done it by being a genuine talent.

Moon is about Sam Rockwell, who plays Sam, a man working on the other side of the moon for "Lunar Industries" a company who create energy using Helium 3 from the Moon to power the Earth. He and his robot chum GERTY, Kevin Spacey, do their work and retain sanity, until he has a crash on a Lunar Rover and wakes up back to normal, wondering what happened to the rover.

He's not allowed out until he's deemed medically fine, but sneaks out and gets to the crash site only to find a body in there. Him.

From there on in it descends from breezy special effects drama to a twisting turning psychological thriller in space with two of the same person trying to figure out what is going on, and it skips over the cliches, they're not evil versions of one another, the computer is bad, instead of trite easy moments it jumps from a slow burning film that's not too fascinating into a slowly meandering into oblivion web that you get hooked into and can't really figure it all out until way past the credits.

For a $5 million budget they certainly got a lot out of it, the sets are authentic and have a nostalgic feeling going back to 2001, Alien and the like, the proper kinds of sci-fi, slightly futuristic but almost possible, the moon itself looks amazing, and whilst there's not much with gravity issues, it's not a problem. The music by Clint Mansell is one of the first of the year that come the end I was tapping toes to, I simply must find the score, it's haunting, epic, subtle and at it's high points loud and fun.

For such a small budget it is a beautiful film, breathtaking in fact, with just so much smart and fun dialogue, great Sam and Sam interactions, a Table Tennis scene explained "Howdeydodat" by Mr. Jones after the film is impeccable, and overall this is the kind of filmt he summer needs. A rock solid fun, interesting, tense, dark well made film that's also a smart adult Science Fiction like the old days before I was born.

Brilliant.
10/10