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Moon (2009)
Duncan Jones
Impression published on Saturday, 2009-08-01 | Film | 3 stars
With the elephant-in-the-living-room exception of one-trick-pony Clint "persona non grata" Mansell's cloying, amateur-hour score, everything in this film is extremely competently delivered. Jones' direction is transparent, the photographer doesn't harass the viewer and the (scant) cast puts on a convincing show (where it would have been, due to the small scale and insularity of the project, very tempting to put on tours de force, i.e. screw the pooch). Ultimately, if you can focus on other details of the production when Mansell starts slapping his piano like a muppet while the world's tiniest violin plays "My Heart Pumps Purple Piss", you'll find that you're in the midst of a very awesome, very overtly old school sci-fi pic that evokes (but doesn't ride childishly on the dick of) the greats: 2001, Alien and even a little (but not too much) Blade Runner.
