Holy shit what a first movie. Duncan Jones wrote and directed this and had made a really great lowkey sci fi.
Sam Rockwell is a contractor for Lunar Industries who run a Helium-3 mining operation on the moon. It's mostly automated so they only require one person stationed there to send the payloads back to earth. He communicates with earth via satellite and has a mobile robot attendant, Gerty who hangs from the ceiling and can move throughout the facitlity via tracks.
The movie sets up his day to day routine on the base before revealing that he's starting to suffer from the isolation. He goes out to repair one of the havesters but has an accident that renders him unconscious, waking up back at the base Gerty explains what happened but somethings not right and when Sam sneaks out to investigate the broken harvester he discovers something not right at all...
It's Sam's show and he's great. He's extremely likable which is lucky because he's the only person in this whole movie (not counting his wife on satellite and one sentence from Matt Berry also via satellite) and he's never overly actorly it always feels like he's just making up everything he says.
The only bum note is using Kevin Spaceys voice for Gerty - should of been Matt Berry actually no that would of been too theatrical but definately entertaining "Sam you were involved in an highly un-use-she-ual accident on the harvester..." maybe a female voice? I'm not sure but NOT Kevin Spacey.
YES - made with love.
