Moon

Really great minimalistic sci-fi debut; although the theme is not that complex, its exposition is spun out with great craft, allowing us to share the doubts of the main character while occupying an omniscient point of view. Humour is used well to alleviate the mood. At each plot point, the film seems to make exactly the right decision, and it's a pleasure to just sit back and be hand-held though to the end. The continuous "why?"s are all answered satisfactorily and with impeccable timing.

You can see the clear influences of films like 2001 and Alien but it doesn't feel like any sort of rehash but a fresh movie in the genre of hard sci-fi, which has been mostly dead for the past 20 years. Sam Rockwell is absolutely superb and Duncan Jones puts forth a fantastic film debut; managing to make the minuscule $5 million budget go to great lengths. Even though the film is contained it still feels grand. This is a must see and possibly the best film of 2009.

An excellent debut film, and one of the best sci-fi films of this decade. The movie is essentially a one-man show, and Rockwell is dynamite in the lead. For a film on a modest budget, the effects work is quite convincing, and Clint Mansell's music is top-notch. Spacey is a great fit for the robot, his voice is simultaneously comforting and sinister. The plot lays out its surprise pretty early in the running time and still maintains a high level of suspense and mystery. It's just a great movie.

I really really liked this movie. I'm not sure why I'm just now getting around to watching it. Rockwell is really solid, and hearing Kevin Spacey's voice as Gurty made me smile for some reason. Some of the CGI is weak, but that's okay here. It's a great first film for Duncan Jones and the real stars here are Rockwell and the script, which keeps you guessing what will happen until it finally does. A solid space movie that also made me tear up a bit. Great stuff!

Probably the most titanic and meritoriously impressive film debut ever. An excellent science fiction movie with a miraculously unprecedented and extraordinary performance by Sam Rockwell, and it also includes an additionally tormentingly persecuting yet compelling voice-over from Spacey which is merged on a sinister computer which is somewhat homogeneous and congruous of 2001. Mansell's composition is the centerpiece, it begins and ends the movie in an impeccably immaculate manner. Not to miss.