Going into this movie, all I knew was that it had one of the best posters I've seen in a long time
and that something I read made me think it was a newish version of 'Solaris' (either by Tarkovsky or Soderbergh). The story is about a future guy who works on the dark side of the moon where he harvests some sort of hydrogen something and sends it back to earth for use as fuel. As this three-year contract on the moon (where he works alone... strange) is about to end, strange stuff begins to happen to make him question his sanity.
Overall this is utterly derivative and almost entirely unoriginal. Kevin Spacey (gag) is the voice of Gerty the robot on the base - and it is so clearly HAL-9000 it's not worth talking about. There is a lot of Soderbergh's Solaris and elements of later Alien movies...
Still, Sam Rockwell is good (with little to work with) and the costumes and sets look great. It's not wonderful, but it's not terrible. Once you figure out the secret issue to the lunar operation, the movie stops being very interesting... In short, great poster, meh movie.
Stars: 1.5 of 4
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