Moon

[rok]

I watched this last night, and I have to say, it was a bit different than I expected, but not in a negative way. The "twist" occurs midway through the film, but there are still plenty of unexpected more subtle surprises from that point on. Sam Rockwell was great, playing multiple roles of varying degrees on his personality scale. I love movies like this because they ask deeper questions about the ethics of technology and science that most sci-fi films are too scared to even go near. The tone and themes reminded me a lot of 2001 obviously (Gerty = HAL), Bladerunner, and certain parts of the first Matrix, at least on the philosophical end of things. I'm not ready to label this a new classic, but it is a very solid, intelligent film. It kept me interested throughout, and even the slow parts left me constantly second-guessing myself. I wish more sci-fi were made like this today, because this definitely has much more in common with the cerebral stories of P.K. Dick and Richard Matheson, and not the action-infatuated popcorny good vs evil stories by Roddenberry and others, which have become so plain vanilla and ubiquitous in the past 20 years.

4/5 stars