I proudly caught the trailer to this movie a few months ago, and when it finally came out to theaters, or shall I say theater (no "s"), it was almost impossible to catch it. The only theater in all of Toronto and the GTA which played this movie was some horrid, 70" <- (yes inches, NOT foot) screen. Why no half-decent theater wanted to carry this movie was beyond me. After the first hour of this film, I was thinking that Sunshine was easily the most underrated movie of the year. It seemed like they fired the director and hired a child who could not express himself for the directing job about 30 minutes towards the ending of the movie.
Sunshine starts in the future with a second group of astronauts trying to save the earth by "recharging" the dying sun. They detoured to the outskirts of Mercury to recover and save the first group of astronauts, only discovering bodies and a motionless spacecraft. On the way back to revive the sun, they discovered that not only has the detour jeopardized their mission, but an extra piece of mass has mysteriously been detected on their ship.
This movie thrills and entertains like it promises, but the end just doesn't meet up to par. It is very scattered and leaved you wondering what the hell happened. The special affects is outstanding and the cinematography is brilliant.
I did not believe this movie for a second either. For a start, the sun would not just fade away and need charging to revive it. Overtime once the sun gets old enough, it will exploded. Not fade away like a light-bulb. Second, when you look straight into the sun for a period of time on Earth, you screw up your retina and your eyes start burning. But of course when they are right next to the sun, they could look straight at it without any trouble. And if that isn't enough, they could float in space without a astronaut suit and having their heads not blow up. Sure this movie is all science fiction but they could have at least made it slightly believable.
This movie could have officially been declared underrated if not for the confusing, what he hell happened ending. I would have to give it a 5/10 because after trying so hard to find and see this movie, I was let down with the ending.
Sunshine starts in the future with a second group of astronauts trying to save the earth by "recharging" the dying sun. They detoured to the outskirts of Mercury to recover and save the first group of astronauts, only discovering bodies and a motionless spacecraft. On the way back to revive the sun, they discovered that not only has the detour jeopardized their mission, but an extra piece of mass has mysteriously been detected on their ship.
This movie thrills and entertains like it promises, but the end just doesn't meet up to par. It is very scattered and leaved you wondering what the hell happened. The special affects is outstanding and the cinematography is brilliant.
I did not believe this movie for a second either. For a start, the sun would not just fade away and need charging to revive it. Overtime once the sun gets old enough, it will exploded. Not fade away like a light-bulb. Second, when you look straight into the sun for a period of time on Earth, you screw up your retina and your eyes start burning. But of course when they are right next to the sun, they could look straight at it without any trouble. And if that isn't enough, they could float in space without a astronaut suit and having their heads not blow up. Sure this movie is all science fiction but they could have at least made it slightly believable.
This movie could have officially been declared underrated if not for the confusing, what he hell happened ending. I would have to give it a 5/10 because after trying so hard to find and see this movie, I was let down with the ending.