DotTheEyes
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Sunshine is a shot in the arm to the flagging genre of science fiction, perhaps the best it's seen since the days of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Aliens, and Star Wars.
Fifty years from now, the Sun is dying, and humanity is dying with it. Our last hope is a spaceship and the team of specialists aboard it. Their mission is to detonate a bomb with a thermonuclear payload in order to re-ignite the star.
But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is a fatal error and then a distress beacon from a spaceship which mysteriously vanished years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.
An international ensemble cast stars as the spaceship crew, reflecting the mission's purpose on behalf of humanity in general. Each fills their role perfectly and the relationships between them become more and more fascinating as the tension of the mission rises (eventually to a point where they must consider murder to reduce the use of the limited oxygen they have stored).
There are many standouts in the cast. Australian actress Rose Byrne (she played Briseis, the lover of Brad Pitt's Achilles, in Troy and is also in the new hit FX series "Damages") as sympathetic pilot Cassie comes to mind.
Also, American actor Chris Evans (the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four series) as pragmatic, driven engineer Mace and Irish actor Cillian Murphy (who played villians in Batman Begins and Red Eye) as the contemplative and ultimately heroic physicist Capa, who is considered the most important individual aboard due to his understanding of the explosive device essential to the completion of their mission.
The action is gripping and the visual effects mesmerizing and, at times, terrifying. The enormity and otherworldliness you would expect from a voyage to the Sun fills every frame and it is truly enthralling and jaw-dropping.
This is a masterpiece of the genre which hasn't received its due at the box office, but I am confident it will follow the Blade Runner path: word-of-mouth will spread and it will come to be accepted as a science fiction classic.
Sunshine is a shot in the arm to the flagging genre of science fiction, perhaps the best it's seen since the days of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Aliens, and Star Wars.
Fifty years from now, the Sun is dying, and humanity is dying with it. Our last hope is a spaceship and the team of specialists aboard it. Their mission is to detonate a bomb with a thermonuclear payload in order to re-ignite the star.
But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is a fatal error and then a distress beacon from a spaceship which mysteriously vanished years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.
An international ensemble cast stars as the spaceship crew, reflecting the mission's purpose on behalf of humanity in general. Each fills their role perfectly and the relationships between them become more and more fascinating as the tension of the mission rises (eventually to a point where they must consider murder to reduce the use of the limited oxygen they have stored).
There are many standouts in the cast. Australian actress Rose Byrne (she played Briseis, the lover of Brad Pitt's Achilles, in Troy and is also in the new hit FX series "Damages") as sympathetic pilot Cassie comes to mind.
Also, American actor Chris Evans (the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four series) as pragmatic, driven engineer Mace and Irish actor Cillian Murphy (who played villians in Batman Begins and Red Eye) as the contemplative and ultimately heroic physicist Capa, who is considered the most important individual aboard due to his understanding of the explosive device essential to the completion of their mission.
The action is gripping and the visual effects mesmerizing and, at times, terrifying. The enormity and otherworldliness you would expect from a voyage to the Sun fills every frame and it is truly enthralling and jaw-dropping.
This is a masterpiece of the genre which hasn't received its due at the box office, but I am confident it will follow the Blade Runner path: word-of-mouth will spread and it will come to be accepted as a science fiction classic.
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