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Sam Rockwell,
Dominique McElligott,
Kevin Spacey
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Duncan Jones
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: Sony Pictures
: Drama, Science Fiction
: 97 min.
: English
: French
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An astronaut miner extracting the precious moon gas that promises to reverse the Earth's energy crisis nears the end of his three-year contract, and makes an ominous discovery in this psychological sci-fi film starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. For three long years, Sam Bell has dutifully harvested Helium 3 for Lunar, a company that claims it holds the key to solving humankind's energy crisis. As Sam's contract comes to an end, the lonely astronaut looks forward to returning to his wife and daughter down on Earth, where he will retire early and attempt to make up for lost time. His work on the Selene moon base has been enlightening -- the solitude helping him to reflect on the past and overcome some serious anger issues -- but the isolation is starting to make Sam uneasy. With only two weeks to go before he begins his journey back to Earth, Sam starts feeling strange: he's having inexplicable visions, and hearing impossible sounds. Then, when a routine extraction goes horribly awry, it becomes apparent that Lunar hasn't been entirely straightforward with Sam about their plans for replacing him. The new recruit seems strangely familiar, and before Sam returns to Earth, he will grapple with the realization that the life he has created may not be entirely his own. Up there, hundreds of thousands of miles from home, it appears that Sam's contract isn't the only thing about to expire. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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by Texan99
September 4, 2010 - 12:18 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| Where was this movie in the 2009 Oscars? It was head and shoulders above any of the winners, but was completely snubbed. A first full-length feature by David Bowie's talented 38-year-old son, it exploits the best advantage of science fiction -- the freedom to explore alternative realities -- without confining itself to the ordinary territory of space-opera, slasher-film-in-orbit, or pretentious meditations on Life, the Universe, and Everything. Instead, we get a fully realized character who's placed in tough situations and keeps making surprising but completely convincing choices. Every choice makes him a new person. The script is so well crafted that the artificial character of GERTY is more convincing than 99% of human characters in most commercial films and nearly all science-fiction films. The story reminds me of excellent work written by John Varley. |
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