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Moon [DVD] [2009]

Moon [DVD] [2009]Director: Duncan Jones
Actors: Matt Berry, Sam Rockwell, Malcolm Stewart, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 122 reviews
Sales Rank: 130

Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Indonesian (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5035822035034
ASIN: B002KCO6QA

Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: November 16, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Science fiction can encompass many genres--suspense, horror, action-adventure, romance, even comedy--but director Duncan Jones's Moon doesn't fit neatly into any of them. This smart, provocative film has no aliens or cool spaceships, and the effects (mostly consisting of model vehicles lumbering across the lunar surface) aren't all that special; instead, the material is character- and story-driven, centering on an excellent, multilayered performance by Sam Rockwell. The scene is some undetermined point in the future. Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an employee of Lunar Industries, the company responsible for mining a fusion energy source called Helium-3, which is vital to Earth's efforts to reverse a serious energy crisis and can only be found on the far side of the Moon. Sam is all by himself, and as he nears the end of his three-year contract, the solitude is starting to get to him ("Three years is a long haul," he says. "Way, way, way too long. I'm talking to myself on a regular basis"); his only contact with his wife and daughter back home comes through the occasional video messages he exchanges with them, while his sole interaction on the Moon is with GERTY 3000, a computer voiced by Kevin Spacey (and an obvious parallel to 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL 9000). Things start to go seriously sideways when Sam crashes his vehicle while out inspecting one of the giant Helium-3 harvesters. He comes to in the base infirmary, seemingly none the worse for the wear; but an unnerving surprise awaits him when he goes back to check out the accident site, and the resulting complications occupy the rest of the movie. Fans of 2001, Solaris, and other cerebral sci-fi will enjoy figuring out what's going on; others will find it slow-moving and tedious. Either way, Moon, which was made quickly and on a relatively low budget, is well worth a look. --Sam Graham

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2 out of 5 stars Implausibilty "personified"   July 29, 2010
John Hegarty (New Zealand)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Sorry, but despite Rockwell doing a decent job as Sam the film suffers from drastic implausibility, starting with the notion that one man would do a 3-year stint........especially true in the eventual context of the film. And then, of course, we have Gerty who kinda renders Sam redundant, so why..........? Seems like Jones et al had the idea at a rather good party one evening and then decided to make the film, without ever challenging the plausibility of their own plot. Disappointing.


3 out of 5 stars Disappointing space odyssey that fails to inspire.   July 27, 2010
Phil Cool (Kent, England)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

The first half of this film was good and sets the scene for the mining of energy minerals on the moon and sending them back to earth, however, the second half then goes off the rails and the computer 'Gerty' produces a clone of the main character Sam Bell who is supposedly killed in a moon vehicle which crashes into the mining machine. The clone then takes on the identity of Sam but then goes and rescues the original Sam and brings him back to life. From then on the story gets more confusing with the two Sam's clashing with one another and ending up near killing each other until the point where the clone Sam takes the original Sam and puts him back into the moon vehicle to die! Then a second clone Sam is produced! The story just lost the plot!. Not a masterpiece like '2001 A Space Odyssey'


5 out of 5 stars Silent Running for Today   July 19, 2010
Lark
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

OK the themes in this film and those in Silent Running [DVD] [1972] are not the same but there is definitely a similar feel to viewing each, as a result it may appeal to some viewers from a nostalgia value, despite not being, I believe intentionally retro. The special effects and props are very similar, including the simple, limited number of sets used for the feature.

The film opens with a mining station on the Moon, a solitary man working in facility with the assistance of a robot/base computer, automated systems and also using some huge looking moon rovers. The action is slow and there are no fight sequences, chase sequences or anything of that kind, the antagonists for our solitary man in the moon are largely men in suits broadcasting from a powerful energy monopoly back on earth and a party of three who dont arrive until the end of the film, depending upon how you interpret the feature never meeting our protagonist at all.

I think that if you liked Lost, especially during the first season featuring the "vault" and "the switch", I think you would like this feature, if you are a fan of Philip K. Dick, especially Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The novel which became 'Blade Runner' (S.F. Masterworks) or even the movie adaptation Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2-Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1982] I would recommend this feature to you.

It is a cerebrally challenging film and even where it can prove predictable or you can guess what will be occuring next there is still plenty which you will be left thinking about or discussing with friends for a time afterwards. There are ethical dilemmas aplenty here and I thought an interesting take upon how computer AI responds to an apparent contradiction or conflict in its programming. Does bare a second watching, aswell as being thought provoking it also has some emotional, even existential perhaps, content too.

A great movie.


3 out of 5 stars Moon   July 14, 2010
E
Low budget film that is surprisingly good. The plot line is obvious from the outset (unfortunately) but the acting is good


5 out of 5 stars A superior, old-school SF movie   June 25, 2010
A. Whitehead (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom)
The Lunar Industries corporation has given the world cheap energy thanks to a helium-3 mining operation on the far side of the Moon. Helium-3 is mined by massive automated harvesters and freighted back to Earth. The operation is controlled by a single moonbase, Sarang. To keep costs down, the base is manned by only one man at a time, helped by the base's artificial intelligence, GERTY.

Sam Bell is nearing the end of his three-year stint on the Moon and is looking forward to returning home to his wife and daughter when he starts experiencing odd hallucinations and mood swings. Whilst driving out to repair a harvester, he is involved in an accident. Recovering back at the base, Bell is confused by the way GERTY is treating him, and the lengths the AI is taking to ensure he doesn't leave the base...

Moon is the directorial debut by Duncan Jones, an old-school SF film very much in the vein of late 1970s/early 1980s movies such as Silent Running, Alien and Outland, including a very small cast, a strong visual look and some superb model work, with very little CGI present in the film at all. An absolutely brilliant Sam Rockwell is the only actor with significant screen time, although the Kevin Spacey-voided GERTY has a reasonable amount to do as well.

Moon has a strong theme of isolation. Bell is alone on the dark side of the Moon, without even Earth on the horizon to look up to. The communications satellite is broken, meaning that communications with Earth are long, pain-staking and tedious. The fact that Bell is starting to hallucinate and see things is understandable given his sense of loneliness, but, as with all good SF movies, we are asked if there is something more to his visions than just good old insanity. Moon rewards at least two viewings, as the director expertly sets up some clues as to what is going on before the big revelation (which interestingly isn't a last-minute twist, but happens fairly early on with the rest of the story dedicated to exploring it in greater depth).

The movie poses some interesting questions on duality, our sense of self, and what defines a person. In this regard it is the best SF novel that Christopher Priest never wrote. The atmosphere is taut and claustrophobic, with occasional moments of black humour that work well. Jones uses the viewers' likely experience of previous SF films against them: is GERTY a positive and helpful AI, or is he cracking up like HAL? Jones also knows when to play a trope straight, when to invert it and when to send it up quite nicely.

The only negative that comes immediately to mind is that the end of the film is a little bit too neat (although still very satisfying) and there are one or two elements left under-developed (such as Bell's family back home). But otherwise, this is a fine, intelligent, atmospheric and at times unsettling SF movie.

Moon (****½) is available now in the UK (DVD, Blu-Ray) and USA (DVD, Blu-Ray).

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