Tweetienator
Danny Boyle did a damn good job here - fine and impressive design and visuals, great score, great atmosphere and a well acting cast. Sunshine is one of my favorite flicks regarding space travels and astronauts spiced with a good shot of melancholy and emotional depth. And imo many reviewers writing negative about the movie don't understand or see that Sunshine is (imo) less a story about space and astronauts and physics but a reflection about the circle of life and death (and the awareness of the human being about that one last great mystery) itself.
TheLateKnightsMusicAndFilm
Drama created out of nothing, worst movie ever written, stopped watching after 4th death, or was it 5th, who cares!
cinemajesty
Film Review: "Sunshine" (2007)With over one year in post-production after principal photography in the year of 2005, Director Danny Boyle delivers a stand-out independent science-fiction thriller produced by DNA films, who had engaged Alex Garland as screenwriter and Andrew MacDonald as producer. Together they send a classic scenario of a spaceship crew on a mission to revive the sun by shooting a nuke into its core. The cast surrounds actor Cillian Murphy as Robert Capa, who keeps his nerve, while all other, including Cliff Curtis, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh and Hiroyuki Sanada as space-walking, sunshield-repairing and ultimately sunlight-confronting Captain Kaneda, slowly get consumed by an space-travel assignment that is believed to be suicide in the name of humanity in the purest sense.Director Danny Boyle, clearly admiring Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) and "Alien" (1979) directed by Ridley Scott, makes his own signature mark on the genre of science-fiction with the picture "Sunshine", benefiting from Alwin Küchler's innovative as striking cinematography embedded in golden gloss of the death-bringing star in the midst of our solar system underlined with a mesmerizing original soundtrack by composer John Murphy, who created with his track "Adagio in D Minor" an ear-piercing high-emotion pitching centerpiece of music, which carries the main theme within the constant pounding, constant thrilling film for a 100 minutes throughout to be encountered by the unknowing as returning viewers alike.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
LeonLouisRicci
A "Hail-Mary" Mission to Save Earth from its Dying Sun is an Intense, Beautifully Displayed Entertainment with Vibrant Visuals accompanied by a Sound-Track that Wraps the Film in a Packaged Presentation that is Highly Suspenseful and Literally Attacks with a Sensual Overload and Creates an Extreme In Your Face Experience.To say that You Experience the Movie is an Understatement. It Grips from the Get-Go with its Stunning Presentation and All the Meters are Pegging. The Look, the Sound, the Situation, and the Crew are there to be Absorbed into the Pure Fabric of the Viewer's Physiology.The Movie Attaches Itself to the Bodily Fibers and it Feels like the Gravitational Force of the Sun is so Amazingly Attractive that it is No Wonder that Humans have Worshiped its Gaze since the Dawn of Man. It's Pure Magnetic Magnificence and Life Sustaining Energy is by Definition "God".The Movie may Falter in the Final Act and can be Confusing, Chaotic, and Concluding the Story seems Difficult for the Writer (Alex Garland) and Director (Danny Boyle), but Boy the Voyage to the Center of the Solar System is Heaven for Adrenaline Addicts and Lovers of "Take a Ride" Cinema.Note...Many Folks like to show off when reviewing, or more precisely, attacking Films of this nature by pointing out the "Laws of Physics" and so forth. But it's been said a million times and is once again worth repeating. This is SCIENCE FICTION. With the emphasis on FICTION. In the world of fiction these observations based on reality render the criticisms really moot.
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