Excellent SciFI film that has a plausible storyline around a topical subject for today.

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2009)

I have been waiting for a film that is as good as 2001-Space Odyssey, Moon comes close. With a similar theme but based on a more realistic scenario this film brings a possible future situation nearer when we are looking for good commercial reasons for returning to the Moon and the urgent need to find alternative sources of power. The excellent acting by Sam Rockwell and directing by Duncan Jones shows that SciFi's films do not need aliens and zombies to produce excitement, tension and visual drama. Gerty, the computer who looks after Sam Bell, the sole inhabitant of an automated lunar mining base extracting Helium-3 from lunar rocks for Earth's Fusion reactors, is, like Hal in 2001 but not so sinister. I liked the exciting twist at the end which I will not reveal as a spoiler. I hope the success of this film will enable money to be found for a sequel or a similar film about Mars