Sunshine is a movie about reigniting a dying sun, but unfortunately, it falls short of delivering a spectacular, emotionally charged experience. The film takes a realistic approach to its science, which while not a bad thing, causes the interactions between characters to lack charisma. Cillian Murphy excels in his role as Capa, the man responsible for operating the payload, but other performances, such as Mark Strong as Pinbacker, feel over the top and detract from the film. The pacing of the movie is slow, and it takes a while to get into the story. The final third of the movie becomes overly chaotic and takes away from the realism of the story. The visuals of the sun and the Icarus II look great, but they can't make up for a lacking story. Overall, Sunshine promised a lot but failed to deliver.
Sunshine es una película sobre volver a encender un sol moribundo, pero desafortunadamente, no logra ofrecer una experiencia espectacular y cargada de emociones. La película adopta un enfoque realista de su ciencia, que si bien no es algo malo, hace que las interacciones entre los personajes carezcan de carisma. Cillian Murphy sobresale en su papel de Capa, el hombre responsable de operar la carga útil, pero otras actuaciones, como Mark Strong como Pinbacker, se sienten exageradas y restan valor a la película. El ritmo de la película es lento y lleva un tiempo entrar en la historia. El tercio final de la película se vuelve demasiado caótico y le quita realismo a la historia. Las imágenes del sol y el Icarus II se ven geniales, pero no pueden compensar la falta de historia. En general, Sunshine prometió mucho pero no cumplió.
Absolute mastermind of a concept, the synopsis alone made me wanna sit through this with a popcorn bucket excitedly which is probably why I'm a bit disappointed with the final product.
The cast, the camerawork, the direction and the acting was all top notch edge of the seat nail biting hype. I loved the concept and I'm a sucker for sci-fi space movies that uses actual real life science theories like interstellar.
Having said that, the first 2 acts were fine but man the final act was flat out absurd. The same issue I had with Interstellar, they turned it into a fantasy movie. I was so disappointed with that turn. I am okay if they use some fantasy elements but the moment they introduced a villain is when I lost it. Like...why? Just the movie with the crew trying to save humanity with space struggles would've totally done the tick to at least earn 4 stars.
The 'sacrificing one life for the sake of humanity' was so well executed, I loved how they handles it but I gave absolutely no shits to any of the characters, except maybe Chris Evan's characters. There was 0 to no emotional depth, some characters were so one dimension. Chris Evans and Cillian Murphy carries the cast despite of the stacked cast they had, they were all under utilized. Albeit the ending was a bit emotional but still I couldn't care at all about anyone in the movie.
Set roughly a generation from the present day, a small crew of astronauts are charged with the salvation of mankind when the sun begins to flicker out. Naturally, the most human response is to fly an absurdly large bomb into it, light that wick and come home to universal adoration. Of course, there's also the nagging problem of the first expedition (transparently dubbed the "Icarus I") which dipped off the radar on its own, identical, mission a few years prior.
It's a perfectly preposterous, semi-serious bit of science fiction silliness that veers into dark-screen slasher material in the final act. Very similar to Event Horizon, come to think of it, minus the demons. Most of the fun comes from establishing the concept, when we're free to play around with loose science and appreciate the nuances of the futurist industrial design. The later developments seem a little obvious and manufactured, and the crew is bafflingly awful at basic decision-making once they're past the reach of Earthbound communication, so there's also plenty to groan and roll eyes about.
Lots of familiar faces floundering around on this vessel, though - Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne - not that they bring more than bravado to the equation. It's kind of amazing that this is the way Danny Boyle preceded Slumdog Millionaire.
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I know people have some valid criticisms of the tonal shift in the last third of the movie, but it's never bothered me. I also loved this other entry into the Chris Evans post-Fantastic Four redemption tour; this and Street Kings really made me start to view him a much better light than "that guy from Not Another Teen Movie and Johnny Storm".
While the Alien-esque terror of a killer being on board the Icarus II doesn't really fit the rest of the movie, but for me, the most terrifying moment is when Capa has started the emergency detachment of the bomb from the ship, and he has four minutes to get from the ship to the payload to ensure it can detonate in time. Then trips while wearing that bulky EVA suit.
When John Murphy's "Adagio in D Minor" starts to hit its crescendo with only 45 seconds left, I get chills like no other movie score has been able to do since "Evey Reborn" in V For Vendetta.
Even with the completely out of nowhere tonal shift in the last 45 minutes, Sunshine has always done it for me. Even if the people back on Earth are in for a lot more trouble than they thought the dying sun would cause, what with all that ice about to melt because the sun is back to its full power.