Ok, so this film came out a couple of years ago, but I only got round to watching it today.

For anyone who's seen the traumatic "Event Horizon", this film has weird echoes (space paranoia, destruction of crew, scary skinless man, etc), although by itself, it deserves more recognition amongst the canon of its director Danny Boyle (though to be fair, that does include "Trainspotting" and "Slumdog Millionaire").

Set in a future where the sun is dying, the crew is sent to "restart" the sun, by sending in a pay-load of reactors that start a fission process. Or something. The science was a bit lost on me, but the theory sounded a bit like the Large Hadron Collider.

Then it all goes a bit tits up. But in true British fashion, they pull it around. Sort of. The payload is delivered.

Suffice to say, it isn't like "Lost In Space" or "Armageddon", there isn't a happy ending.

Added to that, the music is by the superb composer John Murphy, in collaboration at times with Underworld. And at the end was a nice surprise, as the song "Avenue of Hope" by the underrated I Am Kloot played during the credits (sadly its not on Spotify - but Youtube it, its beautiful). That made me happy.

Anyway, thought I'd share what I thought was a cracking movie in the hope that it might get a bit more of the recognition that I believe it deserves.

Here's the trailer for anyone interested: