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Moon (DVD)
Year: 2009
Rating: M
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Matt Berry, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Distributor: Sony
The Film: 4.0
The Disc: 4.0
FILMINK rates DVDs and Blu-rays out of 5
Set in a near future in which a near infinite fuel source, Helium-3, can now be harvestable directly from the moon's surface, Sam Rockwell (Lawn Dogs, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind) plays Sam Bell, who, alone with his cloying helper robot, GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey), is charged with unloading filled fuel containers from giant mining rovers before shooting them back to earth for collection. Sam labours under a deadening weight of unease about his daily chores, which proves prescient as the film turns on an accident involving the mining trucks some days before Sam is due to depart home. Stricken with nasty injuries and bizarre visions, he discovers - in true science fiction style - that the truth is far more nefarious than even his most fever-drenched fantasies.
It is to the very promising debut director Duncan Jones' credit that Moon has a singular, consistent voice centred on the character of Sam and his many shades, and even when the plotline occasionally loses touch with credulousness, the peculiar solemnity of Moon always puts it back on the right track. A cult favourite in the making, the film is afforded a fine DVD package, with two commentaries, a making-of, two Q&As, and Jones' short film, Whistle.
