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Re: Sunshine
I give it a mild thumbs down overall.
It's beautiful, well-acted, has an interesting enough high concept to make you see past the absurdity of it and has a good hard sci-fi feel to it most of the time... but it just never comes together properly.
The biggest problem from my perspective was that given the magnitude of the problem the crew acts like they're solving something far less severe. The whole thing is very detached. Sure we hear about how the Earth is going to end if they're not successful but the crew sure doesn't act like it. And, we never meet anyone back on Earth, never really see the scope of the problem until the problem is already solved, so who cares if the Earth dies? If cute little Zoey Everygirl was back on Planet Earth, I'd heard her talk innocently and naively about her dreams of when she grows up and all the while I saw her tears freezing up, THEN I'd care about this mission!
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