Moon .. anyone ?

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2013)

Although technically well done and I highly, very highly applaud this movie for strongly letting the action take the back seat (But Tom Cruise is still Tom Cruise in the movie (e.g. Jack Harper is and ID) ), the plot have that eerie you've-seen-it-somewhere-before feeling.
Especially if you have seen the better performance but lower budget Moon staring Sam Rockwell.
Albeit not hard to guess and I don't think the similarity was intentional ,(it just maybe my confirmation bias), the story takes its time and this alone might throw someone off. Taking its time like Wall-e's 1st act. And for once, a dystopian sci-fi that shows a lot of sun time instead of dark lit scenes, or rainy, or night time actions only.
But there are action sequences .. a somewhat extended sequence near the end in a cave complex. But that is more of a time killer then a plot device. And not too well executed in that it brought nothing new to the technical table.
Yet in another way, this movies has not a lot of surprises. Maybe I was hoping for yet another Matrix 1.