Advantages: A solid ensemble of actors. Disadvantages: A lack of emotional depth and sometimes clumsy direction.
; a tedious, didactic subtitled epilogue about the true nature of heroism that is so crass it really stuck in my craw.
The screenplay by William Broyles Jr and "Crash" scribe Paul Haggis tries to have too broad a scope. You're constantly flitting between time-lines, which makes it nigh on impossible to engage emotionally with the three main characters. The film would work much better if it focussed on just the invasion of Iwo Jima and the flag-raiser's subsequent War Bond Tour. The subplot about one soldier's son trying to discover more about his father's role in historic events feels unnecessary. It jars with the rest of the movie and does little other than add length to the running time, making it a crippling hundred-and-thirty-two minutes long. It makes the narrative even more episodic and slows the pace considerably. That being said ...
Advantages: History of Hungary come to life Disadvantages: Long, occasionally unconvincing
Sunshine, directed by Istvan Szabo, is an award winning co-production between Austria, Germany, Canada and Hungary. An historical film, the story weaves through 3 generations of a Jewish family in Hungary from the turn of the 20th century to the communist regime post 1956 examining issues of family, torn loyalty and the effects of our personal and national history upon our lives.
The film follows the lives of 3 generations of the Sonnenshein family, all played by Ralph Fiennes, through the intense upheavals of the period. Ignatz Sonnenshein is a political conservative loyal to the Emperor even changing his name from the too Jewish Sonnenshein from which the film takes it's name-being the German for sunshine-to the more Hungarian Sors in order to forward his career. He falls in love with and eventually marries his cousin Valerie who has ...
flyingllamas 21.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Sunshine (DVD)
Advantages: Visually stunning Disadvantages: A bit chaotic towards the end
The decision whether to watch "Sunshine", the newest collaboration between director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, was always going to be an easy one. I'm a big fan of "Trainspotting", which was also directed by Danny Boyle and my girlfriend loves "28 Days Later", which was a previous joint project for the two. So with a Sunday afternoon with nothing much to do stretching before us and "Sunshine" having just opened, it was only left to decide which showing to attend and to hope previous enjoyment would not set our expectations too high.
Our sun is dying, condemning the Earth to a permanent Winter as its rays are no longer enough to provide heat. A crew of 8 have set off in Icarus 2 to try and drop a large bomb into the heart of the sun in an attempt to reinvigorate it and warm up the planet once more; they're essentially there ...
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