Offbeat Geek

Sam Rockwell (“Galaxy Quest”, “Hitchhiker’s Guide”, “Jesse James”, the upcoming “Iron Man 2″) portrays Sam Bell, the lone employee serving on the Lunar Industries mining base “Sarang”. He is serving the last couple of weeks of his 3 year contract before returning to earth. Though he is the only human crew member he does have one companion, a machine named GERTY, voiced by Kevin Spacy.

When Sam crashes his moon rover after a hallucination things start to unravel. With the startling discovery he makes back at the crashed rover he doubts his sanity and very existence. I don’t want to give away anything, not that it would really spoil anything. The real meat comes from the character’s resolution of the situation. I can’t recommend this movie highly enough. Yes, even for someone who is not a science fiction fan.

The musical score, by one Clint Mansell, is perfectly fitting and ranks right up there with K-Pax, and Solaris’ scores. I have been listening to the main theme on repeat for a while now and it just does not get old. It is one of those tunes that has great depth and works well throughout the movie’s varied emotional states. Clint has proven yet again that he is not a one themed wonder like other notable composers around these days.

All in all Moon is well executed and enjoyable.