A movie just as empty as the space itself

Rating: 4/10 (23 February 2014)

There are some good things about "Moon". Sam Rockwell ("The Matchstick men") deserves some praise for his performance. I would even say it's an Oscar worthy performance. He captures many different emotions of his hero (loneliness , boredom , depression , anger , psychosis) and gives a true one man show through all movie. I also liked Kevin Spacey ("American beauty") as the voice of robot.
Clint Mansell delivers a gentle music that has something magical in it , something which screams "SPACE". His music is one of the strongest points of the movie. "Moon" is also visually good looking . The special effects are few and well used. The art-direction reminds me of "2001 : Space odyssey" and that's a good thing.
All of these doesn't change the fact that "Moon" is dull , shallow , boring and pretentious movie. Some people were fouled by the fact that there are no explosions or too much action here and that the movie is relatively low budget. For some people that already means that a movie is ART. That this is a philosophical science fiction movie worthy of Stanley Kubrick. That's completely not true. I have seen few philosophical sci-fi movies in my life – "2001 : Space odyssey" , "A Clockwork orange" , "Solaris" , "Stalker" . You could also add to them "The Matrix" and "Inception". All of them ask philosophical questions , while the last two are also very entertaining. "Moon" is definitely not an entertaining movie . It's also not a deep movie , even if it pretends to be meaningful.
It's not about the fact that the story here is almost completely predictable and I have guessed the whole mystery after twenty minutes . It's also not about the fact that "Moon" left me emotionally cold.
It's about the fact that the whole movie PRETENDS to ask important questions , but it never really asks them . It's a movie where the viewer see what he wants to see. Some people will say it's a movie that asks what it means to be human , some will say that it asks about the morality of scientific experiment , some will say that it is about computer/robot becoming human , some will say that it's a heartbreaking story about loneliness and a deep allegory for whole humanity and so on and on "Moon" is a movie about nothing. Get over it. There is no deep message or any substance here. It's just a quite well made trick to make you believe that there is some deeper meaning here while there isn't. Don't waste your time and better watch one of the sci-fi classics of Kubrick or Tarkovsky . They are deep and definitely hard to watch , but not boring movies. Why ? Because there is subtle message hidden underneath them. You could also watch "Inception" or "Matrix" – entertaining , high budget , commercial yes , but also deep movies.
Don't let anybody full you that this pseudo-art is a deep movie. I give it 4/10.