Review: Sunshine

Danny Boyle sends a group of astronauts - Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, and Rose Byrne among them - on a mission to deliver a giant nuke in order to restart our dying star and save mankind. Confined to a ship that instantly brings to mind 2001's Discovery, they send video greetings to their families and tend to Silent Running oxygen gardens. But no matter how many millions of miles from home, when a distress signal arrives, it's clear that we're in some very familiar territory: lethal space walks, ticking countdowns, mysterious ghost ships, malfunctioning life support systems, a computer with a melodious voice denying urgent requests, tripped-out deep-space epiphanies. Nothing new under the sun. Sunshine opens tomorrow. Continue reading Jürgen's review.