Hey, Gepetto, Wake Up

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2009)

Greetings again from the darkness. Extremely interesting first feature from writer/director Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie). The issue I often have with sci-fi is its lack of humanity. Funny to me that this one is loaded with humanity and emotions and psyche, yet it is centered around human cloning!
Sam Rockwell is outstanding as the poor guy "sentenced" to 3 years of isolation on the other side of the moon in order to deliver energy back to earth. Of course, we (and he) find out that Sam is actually programmed to last 3 years before being disposed of and replaced by a new Sam.
Prefer not to discuss any more about the film than that, but will say it does a very good job of examining isolation and a full spectrum of other human emotions ... not to mention the scientific possibilities that may be on the horizon. Lastly, the voice of GERTY is provided by Kevin Spacey. There aren't too many other voices that would give me LESS confidence that things are going to be alright!