Cast Sam Rockwell
Kevin Spacey
Kaya Scodelario
Benedict Wong
Matt Berry
Malcolm Stewart
Dominique McElligott
Screenwriters
Duncan Jones
Nathan Parker
Director
Duncan Jones
Running Time
97 minutes
It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. [Spoiler] But, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago. Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a “support crew” on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company plans. (Sony Pictures Classics)
I've blanked out some of the summary as it gives a lot away, that I didn't know going in and you might want to avoid.
The low budget shows a little with some of the effects plus I don't know why there would be earth gravity inside the base but moon gravity outside and opening hatches wouldn't make noise in a vacuum. I enjoyed it but was a little underwhelmed overall.
