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The Moon

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Seven years after Korea's first fully manned mission to the moon ends in disaster, a second human spaceflight is launched successfully--until a strong solar wind causes the spacecraft to malfunction. With an astronaut left stranded in space, and quickly running out of oxygen, the Naro Space Center turns to its former managing director to avert yet another fatal catastrophe.
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Joshua Polanski Boston Hassle 07/05/2024
The Moon eventually loses its good favor and begins to feel like a hodgepodge of dangerous scenarios that a collection of studio executives forced into the final product, never coming up for air... Go to Full Review
Emilie Black Cinema Crazed 03/12/2024
4/5
The Moon is a solid action adventure drama, a mixed genre film that has a whole lot going and a whole lot going for it. Go to Full Review
Daniel M. Kimmel North Shore Movies 03/01/2024
4.5/5
Once “The Moon” grabs your attention, it doesn’t let go. Similar to another crisis-in-space movie, “Gravity” (2013), it offers thrilling visuals with engaging human drama. Go to Full Review
Perry Norton Film Threat 02/29/2024
8/10
This is a nicely realized slice of science fiction and a terrific piece of world cinema. Go to Full Review
James Marsh South China Morning Post 09/27/2023
1/5
By turns illogical, infuriating, casually xenophobic and head-bangingly stupid, The Moon is one of the worst Korean blockbusters in recent memory. Go to Full Review
Abhishek Srivastava The Times of India 09/22/2023
2.5/5
This film undeniably draws inspiration from movies like 'Gravity,' 'Apollo 13,' and 'Interstellar,' but ultimately succeeds in maintaining its own unique flavour. Go to Full Review
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Victor P 09/09/2023 The special effects were amazing. The lead male actor DO did an excellent job. The supporting acrtress Hong Seung-Hee was a scene stelaer. But overall the movie was overly melodramatic, sappy and cliched. The foreign actors who portrayed the Americans were horrible and the writer painted a very unrealistic view of NASA officials. Kim Hee-ae had major speaking roles in English but it was obvious the movie was written for a Korean audience because her English was unintelligible (they couldn't even hire her an accent coach) See more Jessica 08/31/2023 Doh Kyungsoos acting was really amazing. The movie was one stressful event after another and I truly thought it would end differently at one point. The supporting actors were also really good. The American actors in NASA sounded comical. See more Jackie S 08/24/2023 Worth watching on the big screen! See more Wanting more 08/18/2023 Felt the movie was not long enough the end came and wanted more need a prequel for clarifications perhaps the director/ writers objective See more Ma N @Ma_Nu Dec 19 Unfortunately 'the Moon' feels just like a bad copy of a typically Hollywood Sci-Fi Blockbuster, trying hard to compete, but condensing actually the worst aspects of Hollywood movies. And that's sad to say because you can definitely see how much effort they put into it. But I constantly felt like the movie wanted to manipulate me into having big emotions, which it hadn't earned at all, and which it definitely failed to achieve. Plus, I felt it was way too predictable to be thrilling either. The pacing was horrible - I guess due to the attempt of creating a dramatic undertone. But as I mentioned: all this feels way too forced to be authentic. ... Anyway... After about half of the runtime I cancelled the movie (which I usually don't do), because I was just too annoyed to make it till the End. See more Steve C Sep 28 Korean nationalism plus stuff that makes no scientific or technological sense equals this movie. This movie is a example why you shouldn't bother watching space movies that are not based on a true story, like Apollo 13, nor based on actual science, like The Martian or Gravity. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Seven years after Korea's first fully manned mission to the moon ends in disaster, a second human spaceflight is launched successfully--until a strong solar wind causes the spacecraft to malfunction. With an astronaut left stranded in space, and quickly running out of oxygen, the Naro Space Center turns to its former managing director to avert yet another fatal catastrophe.
Director
Kim Yong-hwa
Producer
Seo Ho-jin
Screenwriter
Kim Yong-hwa
Distributor
Well Go USA Entertainment
Production Co
Vlad Studio
Genre
Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 18, 2023, Limited
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 27, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA)
$92.7K
Runtime
2h 9m
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