Movie Rec: Sunshine
Apr. 14th, 2007 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowSo Sunshine has for some time been no.1 on the list of (non fandom) movies I've been wanting to see. It's got one hell of a pedigree, with the same writer, director and lead actor as 28 Days Later, an interesting premise and today I finally got to see it, and…and…wow.
It's one of those movies where you walk out of the theatre and you really can't think of anything to say. It's stunning.
It's one of the most ambitious movies I've seen in a long time, if possibly ever. Basically, they are going to relight the sun (well, create a new sun) to save everything. Now, if the sun is the giver of life, then the crew are getting closer and closer to the true great creator of life. In that way it's a spiritual movie for atheists mixed with a big dose of good old claustrophobic horror.
The visuals are amazing. There were no CGI-cringe moments, the sun and spaceship both truly spectacular. The acting's brilliant and Cillian Murphy is as gorgeous as ever and Cliff Curtis is playing an American (half the fun of a Cliff Curtis movie is guessing where he's going to be from this time).
It is, however, flawed. It tends to go off the rails a bit in the third act, which could have worked far if there had been more build up. But screw it; I'd talk a flawed movie that's ambitious, intelligent and stunning over the vast majority of other crap released today.
It's one of those movies where you walk out of the theatre and you really can't think of anything to say. It's stunning.
It's one of the most ambitious movies I've seen in a long time, if possibly ever. Basically, they are going to relight the sun (well, create a new sun) to save everything. Now, if the sun is the giver of life, then the crew are getting closer and closer to the true great creator of life. In that way it's a spiritual movie for atheists mixed with a big dose of good old claustrophobic horror.
The visuals are amazing. There were no CGI-cringe moments, the sun and spaceship both truly spectacular. The acting's brilliant and Cillian Murphy is as gorgeous as ever and Cliff Curtis is playing an American (half the fun of a Cliff Curtis movie is guessing where he's going to be from this time).
It is, however, flawed. It tends to go off the rails a bit in the third act, which could have worked far if there had been more build up. But screw it; I'd talk a flawed movie that's ambitious, intelligent and stunning over the vast majority of other crap released today.
