An intelligent and thought-provoking sci-fi drama

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2016)

If you are looking for yet another Tom Cruise-cloned sci-fi actioner, then give this a miss. Moon is a wonderful throw back to those cold blooded 70s sci-fi films like Silent Running. It benefits hugely from a superb performance by Sam Rockwell, who keeps audience interest high when it could easily wander. There's some nice vocal acting from Kevin Spacey too as a HAL 9000 type.
Director Duncan Jones makes the film looks gorgeous - especially in the outside of base sequences, and at times I had pleasant flashbacks to Space 1999, the old Gerry Anderson series. Of course many of the today's cinema-going audiences won't get it - they are used to ADHD levels of editing, explosions and one liners. A thought piece like this is never going to get their approval. I don't care.
Our story concerns a lone astronaut occupying his time in mundane ways while waiting completion of his assignment and ferrying home back to his loved ones. But then it occurs to him that something strange is going on. And the more he investigates the stranger it gets...
So if you are up for a clever and engrossing, slowly developed (but never boring) sci fi drama) then I whole-heartedly recommend it. Those who want Tom Cruise and Will Smith stuff don't bother.