IMDb meta-data is a runtime of 2hr and 2m, rated 6.4 by 2,400 cinematizens.
DNA: China, PR.
Genre: Sy Fy.
Verdict: More fun than Solaris. (But then so is root canal.)
Tagline: The world ends in 2033. Let’s dance!
A romantic comedy about the end of the world. That about sums it up.
To save the world, a lunar outpost is hard at work, but things move too fast and the 300 soldiers, engineers, and scientists have to evacuate, toute suite. Off 299 of them go, leaving behind one inept nerd who missed the memo, the alarms, the door knocks, the PA announcements, the sirens, the flashing red lights, and more.
He is now alone in the vast moon base with a year of supplies for 300 personnel. From this redoubt he watches a large asteroid strike the Earth.
Wallop! Darkness fell!
Curtain.
Two things follow. Turns out he is not quite alone, and the world has not quite ended.
There is plenty of slapstick as nerd reacts to his abandonment and solitude. And even more when he has company. (Too much of the latter.)
Mission Control on earth re-established a feed from the Moon base but cannot communicate but only watch nerd and his antics along with us in the audience.
Many of the gags are repetitive and it could be cut by 30m without loss. The vainglorious ending was inconsistent but it gave the nerd redemption. It sledgehammers home the communist message of the prophet Jeremiah that the individual must find his good in the good of the whole. If only the Bible basher read the book.
It is virtually a one-man show and the lead undergoes many change from a gormless nerd to a determined achiever wth several intervening steps.
The quality of the effects is superb, if at times, repetitive and boring.