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50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun – but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team are sent to finish the mission as they are Earth’s last hope.

Writer Alex Garland Considered this film his scientific answer to what if atheist were to meet god.

i am not the biggest fan of sci-fi so i came to this film strictly by word of mouth and god bless for that. This is trult a film to discover and experience.

This film more then ever shows that danny boyle is truly a master filmmaker. I mean look at his resume Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, Millions, 28 Days Later. This is another classic to add to the list. this is everything a sci-fi film should be smart unconventional filled with actual ideas and situations that all have moral meaning behind them instead of a spaceship encounters a alien that slowly hunts them down. the sound and visulas are so excellent and rich.

This is defiantely a film that if you have blu-ray or high definition dvd it is the perfect film to fully utilize your system i only wish i had seen it in all of it’s glory on the big screen.

The cast are all excellent even chris evans who i was never impressed by before but here like paul walker in running scared he shows he actually has depth and talent. cillian murphy who aprat from being a beautiful man proves he can do no wrong. this is a compassionate film that asks you to think and feel instead of stare and be scared.

I Can’t Really say enough good things about this movie. it is truly a must see. It’s like “2001: A Space odessey” but with a more convetional storyline, but at the same time it’s not like that film either it’s just in the same category. Either way it would be a good double feature to watch. It’s that brilliant. A mind blower. It still is a spiritual story and can find any kind of philosophy you want in it.

The only depressing part of this film is that it had virtually no marketing when it came out. when it was released there were maybe like 4 theaters in new york playing it no previews, no commercials. just newspaper ads. and it’s a shame this film deserved better respect and more management i mean the studio spent like 30 million on the film. doesn’t it want to at least insure that investment with advertising it more. It has a international cast including 2 actors who were in high grossing popular films (Batman Begins, Fantasic Four 1 & 2) which i’m sure insured it would do well overseas. you have a director who made a high grossing horror film (28 days later) but they just dumped it. it’s a shame

If you haven’t seen it yet, go out right now and get your hands on a copy. i can’t recommend it highly enough.

Truly a lost classic of science fiction. A mmust add to the film library.

GRADE: A+

This movie has really stuck with me, almost inexplicably, since the first time I saw it. Although there are definitely some issues, particularly with the narrative and the final bit getting a little bit cheesy, it was a strangely thought provoking movie to me. It is a very straight forward science fiction text in many ways, although not just because its a spaceship flying into the sun. It sets up a particular scenario with very little backstory for the explicit purpose of exploring a specific idea in incredible detail. Its worth a watch both for the early, building tension as well as for the meditation on the nature of light itself. Particularly, light providing an addiction and eventually transcendence. In short, I found it much more interesting read as a train of thought or philosophical exploration then as a narrative.

If the sun dies, so do we; a self-explanatory and rather frivolous testimonial but has any of us ever concerned ourselves with the reality of how such an event might occur? Danny Boyle’s sci-fi, space odyssey breathes careful authenticity into this catastrophic possibility.
Pre-dating the overwhelming success of Slumdog Millionaire, Sunshine went respectively unnoticed. Boyle, most notably known for his visionary thriller 28 Days Later, was still an obscure name in the industry. The film, however, exceeded expectations. Its relatively small cast of under-the-radar actors had us all skeptical at first but in the end left a fresh and unique impression. The character development was equally divided among the actors which allowed for each individual to take on a major task that greatly impacted the mission. The lack of star performances allows the film to focus primarily on the mission and what it means for Earth if unsuccessful.

From the opening sequence to the unbelievable climax, we are hit with some of the most astounding visual effects ever witnessed on screen. Breathtaking CG images are seamlessly layered within the constructs of the film and intertwined with real environments and the actors themselves. An unforgettable moment of cinematic genius is sparked when the crew, through a filtered light-reducing shield in the ships main hull, is witness to a small object orbiting the sun. The tiny, shadowed object is Mercury. Though quite large in reality, it is dwarfed by the blinding presence of the sun. This shot alone depicts the enormity of what “Earth’s saviors” are up against.

In spite of the time and effort put into the visuals of the film we are left with an electrifying plot that pulls our emotional strings every step of the way. Among the best science fiction films of the 21st century, Sunshine burns a fiery image into the minds of those fortunate enough to have seen it.

Danny Boyle é um cineasta bastante multifacetado. Quem olha para os filmes que realizou repara que este não é um realizador que se gosta de manter sempre no mesmo registo. Boyle realizou com tanta dedicação pequenos filmes independentes, como Millions, como grandes produções, como este Sunshine, filmes de culto arrojados como Trainspotting (o filme que o tornou famoso) e filmes de terror como 28 Days Later…. É sem dúvida um excelente realizador e este ano promete correr aos Óscares com o aclamado Slumdog Millionarie.

Sunshine é a sua viagem ao mundo da ficção científica. Influenciado por filmes como 2001: A Space Odyssey, de Kubrick, Solaris, de Tarkovsky e Alien de Scott, Boyle consegue aqui criar um filme bastante interessante, que para além de ter bastante atenção aos pormenores científicos (alguns bastante credíveis) consegue também criar uma atmosfera bastante tensa que se vai intensificando com o desenrolar da história.

O argumento é uma variação de várias histórias que já vimos contadas em alguns filmes desastre como Armageddon ou The Core, ou seja, a sobrevivência da humanidade é ameaçada por alguma coisa e é reunido um grupo de pessoas sobre o qual recai a responsabilidade de salvar o mundo. Neste caso é o Sol que está a perder a sua energia, o que faz com que na terra se viva num clima glacial. A solução é levar uma mega bomba que tem o intuito de revitaliza-lo. O filme segue um grupo de pessoas que vai na nave Icarus II, estas pessoas tentam levar a cabo a segunda tentativa de resolver o problema visto que a nave Icarus I desapareceu sem cumprir a sua missão sete anos antes.

A grande mais-valia deste filme é o ambiente criado, que faz lembrar em certas alturas todos os filmes que citei acima como influências de Boyle. Aliás, Boyle parece ter mesmo tirado o que mais deve ter gostado em cada uma destas obras. Infelizmente, apesar de ser uma obra razoável, nunca consegue chegar aos calcanhares de nenhum dos filmes mencionados, talvez por os crer misturar todos.

Outro aspecto interessante é a interacção dos passageiros à medida que os problemas vão surgindo. É isso conjugado com o ambiente claustrofóbico da nave que poderia ter tornado este num excelente filme. Mas não tornou, e isso deve-se ao facto do último terço do filme ser bastante mais fraco que o resto. A partir do momento em que a tripulação volta da Icarus I, começam a desenrolar-se um conjunto de acontecimentos que não fazem jus ao que se estava a passar durante o resto do filme.

Fazendo o balanço entre os aspectos positivos e os negativos pode dizer-se que o filme sai por cima. É um filme agradável com pormenores excelentes. É pena perder-se um pouco ao aproximar-se do fim, mas de qualquer forma vale a pena assistir pois é um filme que está alguns pontos acima de outras obras deste tipo.

Entertaining space adventure is still a slight disappointment coming from director Danny Boyle – whose previous films have always been completely fresh and original, while this one was more-or-less by the book. Good performances, great special effects, and exceptionally well-made, but much of it we’ve already seen in several other movies; and towards the end it does periodically and inexplicably shift from sci-fi to stalk-and-slash horror before a strong, visually dazzling ending that almost makes up for the relative banality of the rest of the film.