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Cert 15
Sci-Fi/Thriller
On the moon, Lunar Industries employee Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) single-handedly oversees the harvesting of the Helium-3 isotope, which has become Earth’s primary fuel source.
He has been stationed at the Sarang base for three years and is eagerly looking forward to returning home to his beautiful wife Tess (Dominique McElligott) and three-year-old daughter.
During a routine visit to one of the harvesting machines, Sam’s health deteriorates and he wakes in the sickbay to the familiar voice of resident computer GERTY (Kevin Spacey), with no recollection how he got back to base.
Traversing similar terrain to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Silent Running, Moon is a haunting meditation on alienation and solitude, set more than 200,000 miles from the surface of planet Earth.
Rating: 4/5
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