Set at some point in the future and mankind has learnt to harvest helium3 from moon rocks in order to provide Earth with almost limitless energy. Sam Bell (Rockwell) is at the end of a three year contract working on the far side of the moon as a technician keeping the harvesting machines running. His only company is a computer called GERTY (voiced by Spacey).
He has a mere two weeks of his contract left before he can go home and see his wife and daughter again. Then he starts hallucinating and has an accident. When he wakes up, he is in the infirmary being tended to by GERTY. After his recuperation, he finds GERTY is under instructions not to let him leave the base until a rescue shuttle has landed to clean up the aftermath of his accident. He manages to take an unauthorised trip out to the broken harvester and what he finds there makes him doubt his sanity and, ultimately, his belief that the company he works for has his best interests at heart.
To say more would spoil the plot, but suffice it to say, Sam Rockwell is absolutely brilliant. It is, at times, like watching two different actors on screen. That he manages to hold your attention for 90 minutes with very few other actors is testament to both his talent and the script.
One of the best films I've seen this year.
My rating: 8.3 / 10
IMDB rating: 8.3 / 10
Running time: 97 mins
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