Excellent low-budget sci-fi

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2010)

2009 has been a great year for sci-fi films (in fact its probably been the best year this past decade which isn't difficult) and this film is one of the reasons why..
Im not going to say anything about this film and it was very difficult to avoid reading anything about it before finally watching it - and Im glad I didn't. I would describe it as a cross between 2001 / Solaris (this is just as big an influence as 2001 in my opinion) / Blade Runner / Silent Running / Alien. So its in good company! I have a feeling this one is going to be one you repeat-view a lot like all the best films. Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey were excellent. I particularly liked the emoticons on GERTY - nice little modern touch and very clever in my opinion! Excellent.