Moon

Moon is an interesting use of the living on a distant planet science fiction category. Rather than focusing on the character escaping, Sam Rockwell’s character knows he’s going to escape… until he doesn’t. Before I get into this one too much, I’m going to spoil the whole thing, so if you haven’t watched this one, definitely go onto Netflix right now and watch it, what’s two hours in this time period?

When it’s revealed that Sam Rockwell had all the clones of himself, I was captivated. This shift in the plot immediately made the film much more interesting, but it did seem slightly too early in the overall plot. Which was my problem with Moon, everything was either too predictable, or too early in the film to keep the suspense going for the entire time. That’s what I have felt on this movie for a long while, however, it did recently occur to me that that’s kind of the point. Moon isn’t meant to be like other science fiction films. This isn’t about shooting things with lasers or explosions, really, it’s about rich characters being forced to deal with one another. Being that he had to pull off so much, Sam Rockwell truly gave a brilliant performance as Sam in this movie. The interesting thing is that there are almost no other actors, Same Rockwell makes the entire movie work, and I give him props for that. I really enjoyed the first 3/4 of this movie, the pacing and the interactions all worked so well. But that last quarter is really my problem. Moon seemed like it should have had some huge twist at the end, revealing something that shook the plot of the movie, but it didn’t. Everything the majority of the movie was leading to kind of fell apart here. While there was some emotion at the end, it just wasn’t enough. I suppose I may have been putting this film up to high expectations due to how much I liked the first three acts, but the ending just didn’t work for me. Overall, I truly enjoyed the creative take this movie had, but I just couldn’t help but feel that it was missing something. 8.7/10