This review may contain spoilers.
It might be that I'm in the minority here but I did not love moon.
The movie was very good, no questions asked. Shot well, the effects (other than one scene) were good. I loved the Sam characters acted by Sam Rockwell, I loved Gerty voiced by Kevin Spacey.
The acting was great. Sam Rockwell plays multiple versions of the same character in this movie and it was great, I really loved his performance. Kevin Spacey only had to voice a robot called Gerty, and he does it well.
Gerty was also a great add-on, the only other "person" on this space station. And the design was a great idea, also the emoji for him to emote, I loved that.
The story was great. The story was interesting and while I'm sure it was similarly done before, it was the first time I have seen it.
But... this story depends on the twist and while it's really confusing at first about halfway through this twist is revealed and things are cleared up. I'm not sure how well this will hold up on a second watch.
My biggest problem with this movie was the constant circlejerk that happened. After a short time there are two Sam Rockwells running around on the station. And of course they have to interact. But they interact in ways that only characters in movies interact that are both played by the same guy. When have you ever seen two people play ping pong in a movie? It was added in to show off what they are able to do. I could see the director in front of my inner eye, thinking to himself how well he has done this effect. And we have many more of those scenes as the movie goes on. The worst offender was a scene where #2 tells #1 to put on his hat so he won't be cold. #1 holds the hat, #2 puts his hand on it and slightly moves it to somehow help #1 put it on, but it looks like a those scenes in ghost movies where ghosts pull on clothes. Same thing later when #2 takes a knife out of the hand of #1 to show him how the wood is really carved. It just looked awkward and was clearly only there to show off that they can have the same guy on screen, interacting.
Don't get me wrong, I really loved the story and idea of this movie, but those scenes of him interacting took me out of the movie so much, I couldn't enjoy it anymore. And that's why I'm rating this movie 2.5 out of 5 stars. It would have been 4 stars, maybe even 4 and a half, if it wasn't for the director wanting to be a show off. That really annoyed the hell out of me, and I have to rate this movie lower. I decided to put it on 2.5 which is the edge, it's right between great and shit, and that's where I feel with this movie.
Rant over.
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