Danny Boyle's attempt at a genre-defying, profundity-spewing Space Odyssey crusher comes up a little short, but it does evoke the perplexity such an ambitious movie would hope to.

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The year is 2057 and, Al Gore be damned, global cooling is threatening mankind: The sun is on the verge of death, which would equal the death of the planet. Seven years earlier, a space mission, Icarus I, was shot up to deliver a payload that would reignite the sun; nobody has since heard from those aboard, all…