Danny Boyle, director of cult classics Trainspotting and 28 Day Later, has added yet another masterful yet widely overlooked film to his increasingly more impressive filmography. Sunshine stars Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, and Michelle Yeoh as members of a future space mission designed to reignite the dying sun before earth slips into a second ice age and humanity is utterly obliterated. The journey is tumultuous, suspenseful, surprising, and emotionally gripping. In much the same way 28 Days Later ripped the rug out from under the zombie flick prototype, Sunshine invites sci-fi fans to forget the rules and engage in an unpredictable and genuinely powerful story that gives greater focus than most genre films to the stunning feat of being a real human being in such a dramatically strange circumstance. It all builds to one of the most visually stunning and unforgettable conclusions I've seen in any film this year. This is a film for which "word of mouth" is essential and already long overdue.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
DVD of the Week: Sunshine
Danny Boyle, director of cult classics Trainspotting and 28 Day Later, has added yet another masterful yet widely overlooked film to his increasingly more impressive filmography. Sunshine stars Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, and Michelle Yeoh as members of a future space mission designed to reignite the dying sun before earth slips into a second ice age and humanity is utterly obliterated. The journey is tumultuous, suspenseful, surprising, and emotionally gripping. In much the same way 28 Days Later ripped the rug out from under the zombie flick prototype, Sunshine invites sci-fi fans to forget the rules and engage in an unpredictable and genuinely powerful story that gives greater focus than most genre films to the stunning feat of being a real human being in such a dramatically strange circumstance. It all builds to one of the most visually stunning and unforgettable conclusions I've seen in any film this year. This is a film for which "word of mouth" is essential and already long overdue.
