Sunshine (2007) - 8/10

Sunshine is a pretty interesting science fiction film that was made even better today by the commentary by director Danny Boyle. Before he made the impressive Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle and his team made this after extensive research with NASA into learning what would go into a eating and sleeping on a space mission where a human crew takes a nuclear bomb to reignite the sun after it died and turned out planet to permanent winter. The first thing he disusses is the colors he chose to show whereas inside their ship it's all green and blue so that by depriving us as an audience of yellow and red, it's that much more intense when we are shown the size and power the sun has on them. I like how he felt the need to recognize stepping on the toes of older films like 2001 and Aliens by giving this diverse crew an introduction by a making a regular breakfast and montage of their daily tasks through the greenhouse to get to know them.

While the premise is pretty interesting to think about when we might have worry about how long the sun will last, I appreciated that he set the entire movie in their world that was so far from home until the very last shot. As the human errors eventually pile up and the mission goes into jeopardy, it was cool how Boyle talks about how it doesn't really matter which person died first but that it was always planned out to have this crazy monster at the end and the mission to succeed. By showing the breakdown of human emotion in life changing situtions, he examines the beliefs that they all were facing of science vs. God to the point where they sacrice themselves for the greater good. I liked everthing but the ending of the movie as it gets a little confusing but that doesn't stop this thriller from being a kickass time in space with some amazing CGI work on of the sun and ship. Boyle can do such a variety of genres, I can't wait to see what he has up his sleeve next.