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Sunshine

Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne

Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. Bu...( read more  read more... )t deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.

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  • EarthlyAlien
    November 7, 2009
    EarthlyAlien
    "At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here... but stardust."

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    Alright, first things first: I'm not a Sci-Fi fan. Never was, and probably never will be. Of course, that doesn't interfere (at all) with my ability to admire and appreciate sacred classics like 2001, Star Wars or Alien. I might not worship them like millions do, but I sure as hell respect them. But, present day speaking, I honestly don't think the genre has much more to offer. And this isn't a criticism, it's just the way it is. I mean, with the exception of The Matrix and Joss Whedon's "Firefly" series / Serenity, we saw nothing new in the last decade. Pretty much everything was already done. Space missions / adventures, aliens, robots, time travels... what's left? Even though I'm a pretty deep believer in the human creativity, I just think the genre is too self-limitative.

    That doesn't mean, as you obviously already figured out from my rating, that I didn't enjoy Danny Boyle's attempt, with Sunshine. It might be hard to believe, given his filmography so far, but he is a genuine Sci-Fi fanatic, and his passion is pretty clear when you watch the film. Of course, I still stick to what I said before: it doesn't bring anything new. Fifty years in the future, spaceship plus eight men / women crew. Mission: save the world. I can think of half a dozen films that can fit that description. Still, Sunshine is ahead of them all.

    Even though, like I said, it isn't as innovative as it would be expected from Boyle/Garland (like 28 Days Later... was) it doesn't fall in clichés either and has no predictability whatsoever. The last quarter of the film completely switches the direction in which the story was going and it goes from Sci-Fi / Drama to Suspense / Thriller in a heartbeat. The end was also pretty unexpected. No smiley happy endings and, to whoever may be able to get it, it even has its share of poetic and beautiful. Apart from that, expect the always stunning camera work from Boyle (the use of cameras on the inside of the helmets was particularly brilliant) and also a flawless cast. Even Chris Evans, an American pretty boy, is solid, which (re)proves that Boyle is the ultimate actors' director.

    "So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out."
  • SirPant
    September 16, 2009
    SirPant
    Danny Boyle is a talented visual director who somehow ends up spoiling his films by going overboard. Maybe he should be commended for his risk taking but quite frankly Sunshine, apart from its unlikable cast, was going really well until the puzzling last 15 minutes. What the hell...( read more) was going on? Who was still alive? Where were they? It was a real attack on the scenes that made no scene to me at all. A very odd experience but good up to that point. Cliff Curtis's performance is also worth mentioning.
  • MovieGeek13
    May 8, 2009
    MovieGeek13
    Sunshine is one of the greatest of all science fiction pictures. Danny Boyle offers his third masterpiece (behind Trainspotting and 28 Days Later).
    We meet our crew, already en route to their mission: the sun, where they must send a bomb into its core that will reignite it and...( read more) save the world from freezing to death. The crew are all tired, scared, and they are almost certain that they won't see their families again. But a handful of them are fascinated at seeing the sun. We take the sun for granted, but this crew doesn't, because this is probably the first time they're seeing it. Then things go wrong. The film becomes an edge-of-your-seat thriller while at the same time, never forgetting the heart of the story. Brilliant filmmaking! This is the disaster picture Hollywood should have made a decade occur, instead of pumping out expensive crap like Armageddon and Deep Impact.
  • SarahG1988
    May 3, 2009
    SarahG1988
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    A team of astronauts are sent to re-ignite t...( read more)he dying sun 50 years into the future.




    Review coming soon...maybe 02/05/09
  • evillincoln
    April 6, 2009
    evillincoln
    mega creepy, but why would the sun be dying in 50 years? we have got a couple billion years before we have to worry about that.
  • kayleedykstra
    December 19, 2009
    kayleedykstra
    I couldn't even pay attention it was so boring
  • Marischa2
    December 18, 2009
    Marischa2
    oh I loved this movie all the way!!! the end was sad though.
  • andrewkeithwright
    December 11, 2009
    andrewkeithwright
    Enjoyed this very much. It was a pleasant surprise following a lot of negative feedback that I'd picked up. I found myself willing them to succeed right up to the end. A lot of it seemed reasonably realistic and believable, with the notable exception of the bizarre presence of gr...( read more)avity on the space ship. If you like those X-Files episodes where a small number of people are trapped in a confined space and must confront the horrors that await - you'll love this. Reminded me of System Shock 2 as well.

    A beautiful film that starts as a human drama and quickly turns into a suspenseful edge-of-your-seat thriller.
  • darrenlock1
    December 9, 2009
    darrenlock1
    Watchable, ominous throughout.
  • captainXiero
    December 8, 2009
    captainXiero
    After I'd seen this film i wasn't sure about it but it grew on me in time, Some of the scene have such beauty to them.
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