Can't Seem To Decide What It Is.

Rating: 5/10 (6 June 2014)

A strange movie that doesn't really seem to be able to decide what it is, in general, the acting and pacing of the story are all over the place. We are introduced to 'Sam' on his moon-mine of some type, the environment is well done, the base interiors look used and the moon vehicles are rendered with models, which for me at least, is more satisfying than a stale CGI rendering. Rockwell is pretty much overacting off the bat, the whole 'astronaut as truck driver' cliché is beaten to death for the first five minutes. From then on, stuff happens, without giving anything away, Rockwell is required to play two characters, which he does with no subtlety, one being the eyebrow arching serious type, the other being an irritating doufus. Anyway the plot unfolds as some kind of 2001/Slient Running/Alien pastiche which can't decide if it's being played for laughs or drama (one can't help but snigger at Kevin Spacey doing HAL), we lurch between casual revelations and grinding cliché. After all this I found myself actually caring about what happened to the main character, which was a surprise. So overall, a mixed bag, it can't seem to decide if it's a lighthearted ScFi tribute or a serious drama.