Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie, made his directorial debut in 2009 with the sci-fi film Moon. That same year, Neill Blomkamp also debuted with his original sci-fi film District 9but Moon actually deserves as much attention as District 9.
Jones is a unique sci-fi director who, among other things, Source Code and Warcraft has directed, but his best film remains his debut.
Story
Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) experiences a personal crisis toward the end of his three-year stay on the moon, where he, along with his computer, GERTY (Kevin Spacey), returns packages to Earth containing a resource that has helped solve the energy problems of reduce our planet.
Two weeks before his return to Earth, Sam also begins experiencing hallucinations of a teenage girl and a bearded, disheveled man. He discovers something that turns his entire situation upside down.
Reception
Moon had a modest budget of $5 million and managed to generate approximately $9.8 million in revenue. Financially, the film was not immediately a huge success, but critics were very positive about it Moon.
The film has a score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on almost 200 reviews. As a result, the film is still looked back on positively to this day and is being discovered by more and more people.
Follow-up
Jones followed Moon quickly released the highly successful film Source Codebut his ambition his dream film only came out in 2018 and served as a “spiritual sequel” on Moon. Sam Rockwell also briefly appeared in this film as his character Moon. This ‘trilogy’ concluded in 2020 with a comic book called Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future.
Moon is not currently available on any streaming service, but the Blu-ray is available for purchase here. Mute can be seen on Netflix.
