Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is on the verge of unraveling. Counting down the days until his three-year contract as the lone operator of a moonbase operation mining the new moon rock wonder fuel that has solved Earth's energy, with only a computerized robot named Gertie (voiced by Kevin Spacey in a dispassionate HAL-9000 tone with just a hint of human concern) for company and pre-recorded messages keeping a tenuous connection to home, he's getting ragged around the edges. But when he wakes up in the infirmary after a bad crash, he's suddenly much more focused, alert, healthy. And soon he's talking to himself, and his other self – physical double, supernatural doppelganger or desperate vision of a man slowly going mad with isolation, we're not quite sure – is answering.

Essentially a one-man, two character piece, "Moon" could be an old "Twilight Zone" episode nurtured into a feature. The industrial environment created by director Duncan Jones references the science fiction future promised in sixties and... (more)