Ok, I just need to get this outta my head. So I spent my weekend watching this movie "Sunshine" back to back on DVD. And once so skeptical me became a fans since I understood the movie. I watched it once on the theater screen and it wasn't that impressive, or maybe I was hungry I couldn't think, but when I watch it on DVD, it turned out to be a beautiful movie. Well, the ending sucks, to be fair, but the first half or maybe the first three quarters is good.
I was first captured by the line narrated by Cillian Murphy at the beginning of the movie. "The sun is dying.. Eight astronouts strapped to a bomb. My bomb". Whew, what a perfect line to start a movie.
The story is set at a not too far away future where the sun is dying and left the Earth frozen from lacking of -what else- sunshine. Project Icarus, it's a big bomb -you can't imagine- contained nuclear stuffs (what is it called? I'm an Industrial Engineer, not a nuclear scientist :)) mined from the deep Earth, is being launched to the Sun (yes, THE sun), expected to reignited it (yes, we're still talking bout THE sun).
The first space ship, the first project of Icarus has been lost in contact and the Earth is still freezing so we assumed that they've failed. Seven years later, carrying the last remaining nuclear fuel on Earth, Project Icarus II is launched, again with the same mission. Otherwise, it will be called Project Dolphin or Armageddon maybe. He he hee..
You watched the mission on screen when it's already 16 months of its journey to the Sun (yes, THE sun). Understandable, watching the mission from the beginning will be too long, won't fit to a two hours movie, rite? Rite. So we calmly follow the vastness of the space and the claustrophobic spaces of the ship Icarus II with its eight crews. Understandable also, these eight crews are extraordinary people, the best in their fields. They have to survive the journey to THE sun, for crying out loud.
Anyway, enough exaggerating, I have always fascinated with space travels, I once really wish to be an astronauts, but gave it up since I found physic is very complicated and I failed Calculus (:D) but I enjoy watching or reading space traveling. Yes, Star Trek included.
Back to Sunshine, it's cute to watch how these crews try to get along the best they could in an approximately 2 years journey to the sun and supposedly another 2 years journey back. They just have to delivered the "payload" or the bomb and run away from the "crime scene" aka the surface of the sun asap before it explode and get back to Earth.
Though seemingly optimistic in group discussions, you can tell that these astronouts knew that they're on a one way journey, it's a suicidal mission. One of them is certainly do, the nuclear scientist Capa (Cillian Murphy) which in one scene, calmly told the ship's navigator Cassie (Rose Byrne) that he's not afraid of dying. "Well, I am," replied the beautiful and always in casual t-shirt and knee-length shorts Cassie.
Another important (and not to mention, very handsome) crew is Mace, the mechanic, played by Chris Evans who remind me so much of his part in Fantastic Four, as a handsome spaceship pilot. Mace who had a fist fight with Capa for silly reasons (maybe not that silly, actually) eventually promised the ship's shrink that he "will not lose track again" which mean he won't be wrestling Capa again (to my disappointment :D) and he kept his words (unfortunately).
That's to sum up what I write so far. Capa is hot and Mace is hot. Hot astronauts. Why can't I join this mission? :D
Oh, there are other actors too in this movie, before I forgot. There's biologist Corazon/Cory (Michelle Yeoh), the captain Kaneda (Hiroyuki Sanada), the shrink Searle (Cliff Curtis), the communication officer Harvey (Troy Garity), the mechanic Trey (Benedict Wong) and the captain from Icarus I Pinbacker (Mark Strong).
Make you wonder, what the hell the captain from Icarus I do in Icarus II. He's supposed to be dead, rite? Not rite this time. He somehow showed up and turn this movie to be Alien-like, with "alien" who try to sabotage the mission. An overkill, I must say. The journey alone is a beautiful thing to be filmed if it were me, but as a Hollywood movie, you'll need a real villain. And here come Captain Pinbacker with his horrible look, almost like Freddy Krueger. Ah well, silly, but without him probably the Icarus II will made it back to Earth. So he's kinda important to add the terror in space. Forgive him, kids. He just try to spice things up. Unnecessarily.
Cillian Murphy. Hot.
*pictures are from rottentomatoes.com
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