There are things you do hate, Lord. Perfume-smellin’ things, lacy things, things with curly hair.
Boyle, one-time (Trainspotting, a long time ago) Great White Hope of Brit cinema stuffs it up again. A real pity, as for most of the film Sunshine has the makings of a great – if derivative (2001,Silent Running – sci fi classic. But then in the last half hour a monster-on-the-loose slasher flick gets stupidly, stupidly grafted on, from which the film barely recovers in its last few minutes. Too late though, for the damage has been done.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
15 Apr 2007 12:45 PM | Comments (4)
:sarcasm: Thanks for the spoiler alert. You’re kidding about the whole monster thing…are you?
What really, really winds me up is the way this film has been reviewed as ‘intelligent sci-fi’ in the 2001 mode, it’s actually about as intelligent as a large bag of spanners. There’s zero character development, and the ‘plot’ is basically a series of computer game tasks one after another. Like 28 Days Later before it, this feels like the script took roughly as long to write as the movie does to watch. And no, he’s not kidding. This is basically Event Horizon with pretensions, and about half as much fun.
Wow. Well, I guess it can’t be worse than Supernova or any Sci-Fi Channel original film. I hope not.
Yep totally agree. Visually stunning and the sound was really sweet but the storyline descendent into hollywood drivel towards the end. Real shame.
However I loved the soundtrack and am looking forward to the release. Very nice. Have added a review and some preview links here:
Brad
Jerell
19 April 2007
11:36 AM