A real piece of movie sci-fi!

Rating: 9/10 (7 March 2013)

'Moon' is built around a stunning solitary performance by Sam Rockwell as 'Sam Bell', a lone astronaut overseeing a mining operation on the moon. With thoughts of his three year tenure coming to an end, Bell prepares himself to hand over the reins of responsibility and for the journey home, but when he begins to experience visions that put him in harm's way, the film takes us into some seriously cerebral science fiction.
Duncan Jones has crafted a melancholic yet powerful exploration of identity and isolation which manages to remain original whilst strongly evoking the feeling of films such as 'Silent Running', '2001: A Space Odyssey', and 'Solaris', to name but a few. It is to the films credit though, that such comparisons can be made, as Moon stands beside them as a sombre and philosophical foray into the eeriness and stillness that the realities of Space Travel may one day bring.
Like all really good sci-fi, 'Moon' poses difficult moral questions with regard to the development of technology and the dangers that such progress will invoke. That it does it within the confines of a creepy, atmospheric puzzle box of a movie is a bonus that will stand the test of time.