Sunshine
by Danny Boyle
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Actor: Chipo Chung, Cillian Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle YeohDirector: Danny Boyle
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Sunshine
DVD Review: Only enjoyable if you're willing to change your expecations
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie will only appeal to a small audience. It's not what you're looking for if you want to see a good space thriller with intense special effects and bloody fights. Granted, it IS a space thriller with intense special effects and bloody fights, but it's only run-of-the-mill as far as the genre goes. "Sunshine" is best viewed as a spiritual drama told through the sci-fi medium, and it's good at that. But if you don't want to wade through the explosions and the gore to get to the religious themes, this is also not the movie for you.DVD Review: NOT 28 Days Later in Outer Space
Summary: 3 Stars
Folks;
If you liked 28 Days Later and enjoyed the suspense and were intrigued by the role of Cillian Murphey, this review may be helpful to you. Firsy of all, this is not 28 Days Later, in spite of a few pretty good moments of "horror shock." I give this movie "A" for its original premise, "B" for its characters but a "C" for its overall storyline and execution. Wait until it's on "FearNet."
DVD Review: Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin......
Summary: 5 Stars
A science fiction film is hard to come by these days. Because mainly we as a society have ran out of good futuristic ideas. Though this plots seems a little used they completely reinvent the idea. Even using sci/fi to create an eerie mood with a disturbing character added to the cast of astronauts. The plot-The sun has exstinguished and therefore we have sent a ship into outer space with nuclear bombs attached to it that will ram into the sun and hopefully reignite it. Along the way many problems occur and I will not ruin in plot developement. But I highly suggest this movie its a wonderful ride.DVD Review: Good Story/Good Cast negated by a Lousy director
Summary: 1 Stars
A good director with a good cast can take even a bad story and make a decent film. This movie had a wonderful cast and the story was original. This movie was marketed as a scifi thriller and I believe the screenplay was probably good. The first thirty minutes of the movie lived up to its expectations. However the movie quickly degenerated into a B slasher movie courtesy of Director Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle took what could have been a good movie and ruined it. Despite his critical acclaim he has never done anything original. 28 Days Later and its sequel were just variations of dawn of the dead. This movie is no different. It is almost exactly like the 1997 movie "Event Horizon". This movie would have been so much better without the shaky camera angles and extreme close ups that made the action sequences impossible to follow. A good director can build suspense and thrill you without using hokey camera tricks and gore. Put this one in the category of "Had great potential" and dont waste your time.DVD Review: It's all dark
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a sci-fi fan myself - I read sci-fi books, subscribe on and off to a sci-fi magazine and watch sci-fi movies. I would happily tolerate something that's less than a masterpiece if I could find just a little bit of that something that makes sci-fi such a great form of expression: imagination, out-of-the-box thinking, daring to provoke, wonder at the infinity that's surrounding us, the passion to explore. I can't say that I found much of that in 'Sunshine'.
The premises are impossible to sustain: the Sun goes colder in the relatively near future but it is possible to re-ignite the Sun by throwing some really large nuclear-bomb-like thingy at it (keep in mind that the Sun throws out at us the energy equivalent to billions of nukes every single second). The movie is showing those who volunteered to nuke the Sun on their journey to save the Earth as we know it. Not everything goes as expected, everyone dies but, in the end, the Sun shines again. End of story.
I found this movie difficult, in fact painful to watch. I suppose that there is some message, somewhere - like... nothing lasts forever and we and everything ours and everything else are all going to die sooner or later - but the way the message (not exactly news) is delivered lacks originality and even credibility - because of the outrageous premises noted above, the not so inspired script and of some unconvincing acting.
Not recommended for a rental. Avoid it. My personal rating: 'awful'.
Description of Sunshine
Fifty years into the future a team of astronauts are sent to deploy a device to reignite the dying sun.System Requirements:Running Time: 110 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/RACE AGAINST TIME Rating:?R UPC:?024543444589 Manufacturer No:?2244458A novel blend of doomsday thriller and meditative science fiction, Danny Boyle's Sunshine imagines a disturbing future in which mankind must re-ignite the sun or face total extinction. A team of scientists and crew members (played by an eclectic cast that includes Cillian Murphy from Boyle's 28 Days Later, The Fantastic Four's Chris Evans, Rose Byrne of TV's Damages, and martial-arts legend Michelle Yeoh) is dispatched to the dying star, but disaster strikes from almost every conceivable angle; as the crew is whittled down by accidents and psychological breaks, the survivors must discover a way to carry out the mission or seal the fate of the world's population. Alternately exciting and pensive, Sunshine's dichotomous tone may throw viewers expecting a special-effects bonanza (though the film's visuals are frequently stunning), but for those who recall such cerebral '70s efforts as Silent Running and Phase IV, Boyle's unusual take will be refreshing and even fascinating. The DVD includes commentaries by Boyle and Dr. Brian Cox, who served as the film's science advisor; Boyle also lends his voice to a brace of deleted scenes, including an alternate ending (which doesn't improve on the one used in the film). Thorough production diaries cover every aspect of the film's execution, from casting to special effects design, while a pair of unrelated short films by Chris Shepherd and Dan Arnold seems to be included only as a gesture of Boyle's appreciation for these directors. --Paul Gaita
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