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Movie Review: Sunshine is just plain gloomy


Sunshine is not hot at all. It's not even tepid. I'd rather step outside and see real sunshine.

Some movies are suppose to be seen in the theaters, some movies are suppose to be seen on TV, and Sunshine is suppose to be seen on a display in a museum.

Don't get me wrong, I see many science fiction movies that are abstract, avant-garde, and ahead of its time, but Sunshine falls into the experimental college student category.

I feel that I'm just watching a compilation of many students portfolios featuring the neat camera tricks and stylistic cheats they can do without spending a huge amount of money.

Sunshine is told and done within the first few minutes. Cillian Murphy (played the Scarecrow from Batman Begins) plays Capa and tells you the entire movie right when the film opens. The sun is going to die and a group of astronauts are going to transplant a strong bomb in its core to hopefully keep it alive and well to continue to spread light on Earth. The astronauts act like strangers to each other.

They discover a group of astronauts that already tried to do the same mission. Capa and crew find out that the reason the first mission failed was because of an astronaut who purposely killed everyone and sabotaged the mission. He evil astronaut sneaks his way onboard Capa's spaceship and does the same thing to his crew.

If I was giving anything away, I wouldn't have said it. Artists say that anything and everything is art, but I don't know what Sunshine is. The last zillion A-D list science fiction movies dealt with a plot that was the same or similar to this one. Those zillion were considered art. Sunshine's timing is way off. It's too little to late.

I give Sunshine * out of 5 Roses.


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