Hi to everybody...as there was nothing else to watch, I decided to watch 'Sunshine' directed by Danny Boyle of Trainspotting fame with, among others most relatively unknown, Cillian Murphy.
Here's a quote from Capa played by Murphy...Our sun is dying. Mankind faces extinction. Seven years ago the Icarus project sent a mission to restart the sun but that mission was lost before it reached the star. Sixteen months ago, I, Robert Capa, and a crew of seven left earth frozen in a solar winter. Our payload a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan Island. Our purpose to create a star within a star....
This gives you some idea of the purpose of the film, but, before too long, this starts to go wrong as they do in all these type of films...and why is there always somebody on board going around sabotaging everything?...surely, the crew would have been vetted to the point where absolutely nothing wouldn't be known about their stability of temperament and ability to stay sane under extreme stress...seems not...okay, somebody makes a massive mistake...one man is left alone to work out some vitally important changes of course and nobody double checks he's got them all right and hey presto, everything gets completely screwed up...
Then they discover the previous mission's space ship floating only fifteen thousand miles away so after disaster after disaster has happened due to this one man's error on their ship, which could have been deliberate, they decide to veer off course and check it out...
Okay, fair enough...everything goes wrong over there too...by now I had the feeling that somebody in the script room had taken a ladle and decided to throw in everything but the kitchen sink...I was wrong...the kitchen sink did go in...in the form of the insane Captain of the doomed ship who hitched a lift with them when three of them were forced to do a high speed space trip from one ship to the other with only Murphy in a space suit??? - the saboteur decided to jettison the old space ship, so before it drifted too far away, the men on board it had to get back to their ship. Nobody explained how a naked burned and totally insane man was missed when they arrived back in their ship minus one of the men because he'd missed the ship and was floating off into space. Anyway, he decided he was going to sabotage this ship too and set off on a killing spree.
Here it got damned confusing because Murphy survived and one other woman, still being chased by this insane Captain who declared that he had been speaking to God for seven years??? Oh, yes, nobody thought to ask him what God said...but there we go...and finally to complete what had now become all but a farce, Murphy along with the girl who somehow gets on to the bomb and the insane Captain too, and it has to be detonated to save the world...pan in to massive explosion and Murphy stretching out his hand for at least a minute or two to touch the burning fiery conflagration...what!
Then back to earth and it's frozen and his two children and his wife are playing on the frozen landscape when suddenly the sun glows and sunlight spreads across the scene....the end!
Damn it...I love a good sci-fi film but this was so full of holes you could use it as a sieve...hmmm...I would only recommend it if you had absolutely nothing else to do and wanted to waste an hour and three quarters...great big hugs to one and all...