The Clone Bores

Rating: 1/10 (9 February 2010)

I rented this movie based on the IMDb rating of 8. Wow! I'm in disbelief. I'd give it a rating of 0.05 if I could.
Any comparison between this film and the seminal masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" is as absurd as comparing a high school football game to the Super Bowl.
This is one of the absolutely worst films I have ever seen. The plot is so haphazard, dull and convoluted I still don't understand the story line.
What I was able to piece together is a pretty implausible scenario for conducting mining operations on the Moon. The dialog – what there is of it -- is unbelievable and ridiculous. The story drags and drags and drags because Sam Rockwell only has one other character to play against – a clone of himself.
His character is hapless, clueless, and idiosyncratic. He reminds me a little of the neurotic isolated astronaut Bruce Dern played in the 1972 "Silent Running."
Oh, there's also his computer sidekick that's yet another clunky imitation of "2001's" legendary HAL 9000 computer. But this computer is a crying bore too. Kevin Spacey tries to sound like a flat unemotional computer, and his voice is so over-equalized that he sounds like he's talking from inside a toilet stall.
Unlike the devilish scheming HAL, this is a nauseatingly altruistic computer that displays – believe it or not – sappy emotioncons. It's so submissive it offers to have its memory wiped. You half-expect it to ask you out for a beer at the bar, or to give you a back rub.
By the time the film ends you are lost is space, or at least went through a space warp where 97 minutes stretched to what seems like three hours of tedium.
I hope this film is not a DVD on NASA's International Space Station. The astronaut crew would be driven to go outside into the vacuum of space without their helmets on.