Now this a real gem of a small movie… it’s atmospheric…
claustrophobic… haunting and spellbinding… I came across this by accident and
I’m glad I did… if one is expecting Star Wars or Aliens kind of action/horror
then this is not the movie for them… but if one is willing to be lead slowly
down a twisted and bewildering plot than one will find this truly enjoyable
remarkable and memorable experience…
And besides that the acting is superb… Sam Rockwell holds the
film on his shoulders and he is incomparable… in fact all the Sam Rockwells are
excellent and as the plot unravels one is truly taken by surprise as things are
most unexpected…
The concept is unique – Sam Bell is an astronaut and the sole
employee working on Moon for Lunar Industries. His shift is for three years and
he is readying to go back to earth to his wife. But the last few days of these
three years and are getting too tough on him as he starts to hallucinate… his
only interaction here in the past three years is with Gerty his
computer-cum-assistant. But even Gerty is unable to tell him what is happening
to him… and things go haywire when he has an accident on the surface of the
moon and later wakes up back in the space station in suspicious circumstances…
looking for answers about himself he finds the vehicle in which he had the
accident earlier and is stunned to find a body there…
And thus begins a series of discoveries that makes Sam suspect
everything – the company, his job, his wife, himself, his reality and his
sanity… his only objective henceforth is to return to earth in any way he can…
This is truly an intelligent and a rare movie… not many movies
like this out there… with no villains, no mutants, no zombies, no aliens, no
animals… no big budget special effects… just one man and his battle with his
realization… gripping, it truly is an experience like no other… out of this
world, I say.
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