Sunshine. When it first came out, I don't know why but I had it in my mind that the movie was just some sort of drama set in space. So I was never too excited to see it. But there came a time when there was nothing to download and nothing to see....
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Sunshine. When it first came out, I don't know why but I had it in my mind that the movie was just some sort of drama set in space. So I was never too excited to see it. But there came a time when there was nothing to download and nothing to see. That's when I remembered Sunshine. So I thought why not and boy was I surprised. Maybe this was one of the reasons why I loved it so much.

About the movie, it takes inspiration, as I read, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Apocalypse Now. I can clearly see Alien's influence, having seen it dozens of times. I'll admit I thought they were going to bring in a hostile alien when Icarus tells Mace that there is a fifth crew on board. But the other two movies are alien to me.

It's premise is scientifically inaccurate but then this is science fiction. They are allowed to take some liberties, right? Unless, of course, those liberties come at the cost of suspension of disbelief, which they did, for me... at times. The cause of the dying sun is never fully explained. Neither was the artificial gravity. On DVD commentary tracks, a Q-ball is accused as the culprit. But from what I've read, the sun is not dense enough to trap a Q-ball. Also, the bomb was not even close to being big enough to restart the sun. This is still better than the thermonuclear death of the sun, which they were most probably inclined to go with. Our sun is not supposed to die for another 5 billion years. Harvey's death also ruined some of my viewing please.

Still I give it a nine out of ten. Why? Because it works. The adventure, the horror, the race against time, the battle against surmounting odds, the struggle in the face of certain death, everything works well. So don't expect too much and get your popcorn for a Sunday afternoon watch. Decent is the keyword.

The movie portrays the psychological effect of extended space travel on humans quite effectively. It also works well to lay out the sheer enormity of a task such as this. The suspense was quite... Alien-esqe. But the conversion to slasher movie could have been made better. In the histrionics department, all the actors performed well. I was especially excited to see Cillian Murphy. He was great in Breakfast on Pluto. I didn't really know what to expect from Chris Evans. I had not seen any movie which required him to do any serious stuff. But he turned out alright. I didn't even recognize him at the beginning of the movie. Couldn't say anything about the rest of the cast but like I said, they did good. Danny Boyle knows what he is doing. He had plenty of practice with 28 Days Later and he used that experience very nicely here.

Also, I'm tired of seeing the movies where US saves the mankind. I know they make a lot of these, end of the world movies and they of course will glorify themselves as the most powerful, advanced nation but it was just nice to see someone who is not American head such a mission. The ensemble cast they chose also works in this direction and gave a certain international flavour to the movie.

So my question to you is, what was the favorite part of the movie for you? For me it was the influence of Alien. That brought up some great memories of seeing Alien for the first time.