Well intentioned but . . .

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2009)

I like Sam Rockwell, I like sci-fi, and I wanted to like this movie. However, I found it muddled and confused -- and not in the sense of "fruitful ambiguity." Many practical problems with the script might have been solved had the setting been moved to an isolated asteroid at the outermost fringe of the Asteroid Belt. This would relocate the action far from Earth and make Rockwell's predicament seem more lonely and precarious. As it is, with the Earth looming large in the sky, just two days away, and with Sam possessing a lunar vehicle which enables him to drive around the moon -- perhaps to the next mining station? -- he just didn't seem especially cut off from the rest of civilization. I also found the talking computer, (complete with nickname and personality), an all-too-familiar cliché.