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Year:	2009
Country of origin:	UK
Director:	Duncan Jones
Genre:	Isolationist sci-fi
Starring:	Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/
Tagline:	250,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face...is yourself
Favourite line:	"Sam, I can only account for what occurs on this base."

Director Duncan Jones' directorial debut is a highly accomplished affair.

The plot:
Sam Bell (played by Sam Rockwell) is a lone astronaut coming to the end of a three year stint on the dark side of the moon, where he is in charge of maintenance and operation of a process shipping a resource back to Earth which helps alleviate the planet's power shortages. With only a few short weeks to go until the ship arrives to take him home, Sam has an accident and awakens to find that it seems he is no longer alone.
And what's more, the new arrival looks exactly like himself......

With a genuine feel of such excellent retro fare as Alien, Silent Running, 2001 and even Blake's 7, this is well steeped in sci-fi conventions.
Jones does a fantastic job of instilling a real sense of claustrophobic paranoia, clearly demonstrating his knowledge of the genre.
Now, an interesting thing: Jones is son of that well known pop / rock / goth sensation David Bowie, the housewives favourite, which would normally irritate, with suspicions of nepotism elevating to positions of stardom and esteem far in excess of the individual's talent, but that is simply not the case here.
A joyously tense slice of quality sci-fi that we have not seen in manies the year.
Loved it.