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An intelligent, fascinating movie for people who can be entertained by story and character content, rather than explosions and titties. Not a horror movie at all, but a slow paced, yet captivating science fiction film instead. Highly recommended.
It's seldom that I am blown away by a film I've "much anticipated". This time actually I was! The trailer did a great job of misleading you as to the plot of the movie. I went into the film thinking I would see a great, modern, homage to "2001" and left witnessing an entirely original story that inspired me as an artist and writer. Sam Rockwell is due for an Oscar. Although I'm sure he won't get one for this indy, sci-fi, flick. It's my opinion he should. Kevin Spacey was the perfect voice for Girdy. I wont tell you any more accept that this movie works the whole way through.
Other than a fine performance from Sam Rockwell this sci-fi film was underwhelming, slow and to be honest boring and depressing. This is one of the most disappointing film I've seen this summer because I was really looking forward to seeing this but it turned out to be nothing huge at all and is overrated. I do admit that it kept me from walking out but that's because it makes you believe something big is going to happen but nothing did and it is really hard to get into it because I found myself falling asleep every now and then. This movie needed more action in it to speed things up because it felt longer than 97 minutes. Overall this was a promising movie that ended up being quite forgettable and disappointing and is somewhat similar to Eden Log and I hated that movie but it's not as bad. Skip this trip to the moon!
The CGI and acting were above and beyond my expectations (there's no doubt in my mind that Rockwell gave a phenomenal performance), but the script just went in a direction I didn't appreciate at all.
Spoilers:
I went to see this movie opening weekend expecting it to be a tense, psychological movie where Rockwell was forced to, literally, confront himself after having been driven mad due to prolonged isolation. This madness and confrontation would lead to him and the demons he was living with (represented in the other 'him' that he found) having some sort of confrontation that either would or would not lead to him solving his problems and 'finding himself'. The direction the story actually went in was nothing but a mediocre sci-fi twist that failed very, very miserably at impressing or interesting me.
Also, I had assumed Spacey's character (the CPU) to play an interesting role. The trailers made it seem as though the computer would play a sort of adversarial role in a similar vein as Hal 9000 in 2001, but any such tension was entirely absent from the film.
Overall, I would NOT recommend this film unless you're looking for the CGI or merely to admire Rockwell's performance. Other than that, you won't get much of an interesting character or psychological study out of this movie, as all interest will be lost in the characters as soon as the 'twist' is revealed.
Just got back from seeing it. Great stuff. I kinda' guessed where it was heading early on, but I wasn't disappointed in the slightest.
Great music from Clint Mansell as always, and another terrific performance from Rockwell.
