Director Danny Boyle directs the slow-burning sci-fi thriller Sunshine from a script by Alex Garland.
Taking obvious inspirations 2001: A Space Odyssey & Solaris, Boyle crafts an effective mood more interested in creating fear with cabin fever rather than asteroids & aliens. Perhaps the most interesting character is the sun itself, which seems to live and breathe every time it's on screen. As great as the build up is, things nearly fall apart when it decides to revert to slasher flick silliness near the end. None the less, it's a interesting thoughtful film that takes an outrageous idea of man against God and makes it personal.
4 victims of Pompeii out of 5
For an alternate expanded review see The Cuckoo Clock
2 comments:
:treknod: Did you see it on blu? It looks fantastic considering all the darkness.
Michelle Yeoh deserves to be in the labels.
Blu-ray indeed. :)
'Twas beautiful.
The sound was a vast improvement too. Rumbled the floors something fierce.
I thought about Yeoh, Curtis and Wong.
That'd just leave out the other guy. XD
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