Refreshing and New...

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2010)

Forget the sci-fi aspect, this movie is a just does a great concept of bizarre reality. All told in a very neat and tidy storyline, it flows well. Without giving too much away, it really portrays a sense of isolation and of how important memories shape our feelings.
The movie wasn't adapted from a book, but actual science concepts about moon mining and clean energy researched by Duncan Jones and developed into a storyline by both he and Nathan Parker. The fact that it is done in a style of 70s science fiction deliberately avoiding CGI gives it unique style in this day and age. An independent production filmed on a small budget, Sam Rockwell, as Sam Bell the moon engineer, carries the film all the way through as he slowly learns his fate or fates, with GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey) as a companion, a computer that controls the station.
I was going to give this movie a 9/10 because I wanted to be mean. Maybe they overdone the 70s sci-fi genre, or maybe the scale of production for a sci-fi was too small, but who cares, the film is overpowering... and refreshing.