Moon starring Sam Rockwell is one of the best sci-fi movies I’ve seen in years. Most recently, the Star Trek reboot was great (more sci-fi action genre than Moon) and Sunshine was awesome until the very odd character twist at the end.

Moon is about Sam Bell who works alone on the moon for a company that gathers resources from the surface that are used on Earth for energy. The contract for the company is 3 years, where you work in a small lunar base monitoring systems while 3 giant unmanned rovers cruise the surface collecting the minerals. Every so often, Sam sends the resources out in a pod back to Earth with reports. Sam has limited contact with Earth, to the company and his wife (with his young daughter) none of it is a live feed, just video messages.

With two weeks left in his contract, Sam pops into a lunar rover to check on one of the gathering rovers where he gets into an accident. He wakes up back in the lunar base in the infirmary and ends up meeting…himself.

I love the concept, I wish I came up with it. There’s 5 people in the movie, Sam Rockwell is 99% of it, the other 4 people are in 1% of the movie. Kevin Spacey voices the robot system in the lunar base, so Sam basically carries the entire movie playing 2 versions of himself and he is simply fantastic. I liked everything about the movie, it’s really inspiring filmmaking. Run time was prefect, acting is top notch, it looks fantastic and I loved how it ended. Duncan Jones (director and co-writer) and the whole crew of course, made a hell of a movie. Watch the special features on the DVD to see all the work it took to get the movie to look and work right. There’s a surprising amount of CG in the movie and a good portion of it is transparent.

Highly recommended.