The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Blade Runner

Rating: 1/10 (29 April 2017)

Astronaut nearing the end of his 3-year contract running a dark-side-of-the-moon energy mining operation develops a psychosis and discovers that he's a pre-programmed clone - or does he? Well, does he? And who cares anyway? You won't. For one thing, if the idea of using clones was to save the cost of sending relief missions, then how can storing so many clones ON THE EFFING MOON be economical at all?
That's it. Fx as good as 2001, mind, and the acting is fine and dandy. But the whole premise could, and should, have fitted into a half-hour TV drama. The problem being that the character of Sam (the single-handed protagonist) is completely bland. It's taken for granted that we empathise because he's the small cog in the interplanetary corporate wheel. That's not enough.
There are a few moments of decent, if predictable (ie his possibly imaginary wife is long dead, he's dead, etc) drama, but these are very sparely distributed over a film that overstays its welcome almost as much as Sam overstays his stint on the moonbase. Kevin Spacey revisits 2001's HAL 9000 as the sinister voice of Gerty, the merciless support computer droid thing, and overcooks it.
If you can manage to stay awake until the end, congratulations. But you won't be rewarded by any denouement or big reveal. Anticlimax all the way, unrelieved by knowing nods to other scifi movies.