Sunshine
Director: Danny Boyle
Year Released: 2007
Rating: 2.0
A space crew flies off to save a freezing planet Earth by setting a detonation inside the Sun but, like most of your space odysseys, they encounter extra-terrestrial problems. The focus is substantially more on its visuals - beams of light come out of nowhere, planets pulsate, space blinks ominously - than its human element, as it methodically starts picking off its crew members one by one early on by generating a string of fatal scenarios (the panels break off, that takes care of Kaneda; the hatch breaks, that means this one can go, etc.) - what helps, too, is that the characters can't wait to sacrifice themselves for the cause - and eventually introducing some kind of absurd supernatural monster in the third act to dispatch with them faster and get Boyle to test out his new camera filters. They probably wanted this to be Tarkovsky and Kubrick but ended up with a photo show and traces of sci-fi horror.
