Moon Man (2022)
7/10
A serio-comic sci-fi about one man and his kangaroo on the moon
20 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Eye popping special effects and slick editing make Moon Man an easy and entertaining watch.

The film playfully mashes together a number of sci-fi cinema tropes found in films such as Armaggedon, The Martian and Independance Day 2 (but without the aliens).

Shen Teng. Plays an engineer assigned to maintain a moon base set up to save the Earth from a massive meteorite. Teng is engaging as the stranded astronaut, Dugu Yue, who can do nothing but watch on in horror as meteor fragments hit the Earth.

Contacted by survivors, he is set up as an inspirational figure, a role he eventually fulfills. As time passes. Yue must contend with a large Red Kangeroo left behind by research scientists and the knowledge that only the creature and he stand between Earth and an extinction level event.

The film is thoroughly entertaining, balancing, as it does, humour and drama. There is a space romance beteen. Dugu. Yue (Teng ), and. Ma Lanxing (played by. Ma Li.) and, comedically., the Kangeroo.

Check it out if you can.
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