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Storyline
An astronaut has been mining Helium 3 on the moon for the last three years by himself. With only two weeks before he returns home, Sam begins seeing and hearing things. |
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The Director
Duncan Jones
Duncan Zowie Jones (born 30 May 1971), also known as Zowie Bowie or Joey Bowie, is an English film director, best known for directing the science fiction films Moon (2009) and Source Code (2011). He is the son of rock star David Bowie.
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User Reviews
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"Moon": a Big Disappointment
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I went to see "Moon" because it had great reviews everywhere I looked and I missed it on the Edinburgh International Film Festival this June which I regretted at that time. I didn't know much about the film except for that it's a low budget sci-fi feature by a beginning director. I watched it in Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel, London which turned out not to be an ideal place for such a movie. The screen was small, the cinema and the area around it quite dodgy, people who came to watch it seemed pretty accidental. All this was a big contrast to what I got used to for the last 2 weeks on the Era New Horizons film festival in Poland where film lovers come to contemplate movies. I don't know how this all affected my perception of "Moon" but I felt that I owe you this introduction.
So, how was the goddamn movie, you're asking? And my short answer is: It was bad. I simply did not enjoy it. And here is why.
Knowing that the movie was low budget I was expecting an interesting, thought-provoking plot and a somewhat sleazy cinematography, costumes and all that stuff that characterizes low budget productions. On the contrary, I watched a movie with a simple and uninteresting plot, but with fantastic surroundings. The spaceship, the surface of the moon and everything around it make a very professional, although a bit old-school impression.
So I said the plot is not too interesting. Let me expand on it.
Duncan Jones tells us a story of an astronaut sent to the moon by his company to supervise the machinery extracting Helium-...
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reviewed by michuk (Filmaster.com) on the 6th of August 2009
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Impressive visually, especially considering the budget. Sam Rockwell sells his difficult parts brilliantly and is the main attraction here. If it wasn't for some niggling issues I had with the premise, I would rate this even higher.