Frat Boy At the Movies: Moon
on July 5, 2009 at 12:01 amThe trailer for Moon looks like a glorious and ambitious movie, the likes of 2001: A Space Odessy. Alas, it falls way short. Sam Rockwell, as always, is great, but the script’s revelations don’t take you anywhere.
Rockwell plays Sam Bell, a working schmoe in the future mining the moon for 70% of the world’s energy. He’s on a three year contract and then he gets to go back to his wife and see his kid for the first time. But after an accident (spoiler) he wakes up in the infirmary and it’s actually another Sam. Sam #2 goes out and saves Sam #1 and discovers that they are both clones. Okay, neat. But that’s about the extent of the revelations.
It’s one of those frustrating movies that stalls. Instead of just saying, “Hey, dude, we must be clones.” There’s this long, unnecessary wind up. And if you’re going to put up a space station to provide 70% of the world’s energy, don’t you think you ought to have more than one guy running the place? And if the Kevin Spacey robot can perform most of the functi0ons on the station, well, why not a few more robots for all of them? Uncomfortable question after uncomfortable question begins to pile up from the second act onward. By the abrupt end, you’ll just be glad you’re going back to your car. Sorry, bros, nothing to see here.
I give Moon 2 out of 10 keggers. Majorly disappointing for this Sam Rockwell fan. Oh, when will they let him play Batman again?
