Sunshine

2007

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 76% · 169 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 266278 266.3K

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Plot summary

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.


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Cillian Murphy as Robert Capa
Chris Evans as Mace
Rose Byrne as Cassie
Michelle Yeoh as Corazon
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ebeckstr-1 6 / 10

Potentially great movie ruined by poor script decisions

I'm not going to drop any spoilers here. I will simply say that for the first hour this movie is superb, with an excellent cast, a beautiful orchestral score, and a solid script based on a wonderfully grandiose Big Sci-Fi Idea.

However, an hour in things begin to degrade, with a couple of poor plot decisions that could have been forgiven if they had just moved on. But an hour and 16 minutes in they double down on one particularly bad plot choice, and the film degenerates into horror movie cliches (yes, horror) which simply have no place here and ruined what would have been and unusually sublime and moving science fiction drama. I would love to know what in the world they were thinking, allowing the script to devolve and go in a direction that does not do justice to all of the other labor and excellent creative decisions that went into other aspects of the movie. What a shame.

Reviewed by cherold 6 / 10

starts well, but doesn't hold together and has too much gimmickry

Sunshine is actually a pretty good movie for the first hour, a slowly paced (U.S. Solaris slow, not original Russian Solaris sloooowwwwww) film that thoughtfully lays out the tensions in a sun-bound spaceship among the crew.

The first problem with Sunshine is the decision that makes the whole movie happen. The fact is, no competent captain would a) let a subordinate make the decision (he would ask his opinion, but make the decision himself) and b) risk a carefully calculated mission to try something extremely risky that might not be necessary and could destroy all chances of success.

This would never happen. The only spaceship captain who would do something this moronic would be Zap Brannigan from Futurama. So even though the movie continued to be absorbing, that really kept nagging at me.

The second major problem is the hackneyed, unconvincing plot twist, which is bad both in script and in execution. First off, it's kind of ridiculously that this crazy guy, seriously burned, survived and was then able to sneak from one ship to another. But even if you accept that, it is bizarre to see what has basically been a low-key drama about committed people dealing with a difficult, life-or-death situation become a horror movie with a creepy Freddie Kruger-type guy killing everyone.

To make it worse, Boyle chooses the really bizarre tactic of making the bad guy hard to see. First he is seen on a corrupted video, which at least is possible, but once he's on the ship, his image is always blurred. Why? It's as though he is supposed to be a ghost or a figment of the crew's imagination, but nothing in the movie besides the blurring out of the bad guy would support that theory. So they just are trying to do what Alien did and show less to scare you more. Only it doesn't work, it just seems weird and annoying.

This isn't the only place in which the direction makes things unclear, but this is probably the main place where it's done on purpose.

There are effective scenes in the movie. In fact, most of the first hour is pretty effective. And some suspense is generated in the poorly conceived latter part of the film. The cast is rather generic but decent.

The film gets its conflict from a bad decision by the crew. The film fails because of bad decisions behind the camera.

Reviewed by teiixeiral 7 / 10

The first 2 acts of the film are absolutely engrossing but the last act is out of place.

All in all, I enjoyed Sunshine. The actors were perfectly cast and had natural chemistry with each other and compelling individual screen presence as well. The diversity in the characters and the down to earth portrayals is part of what makes this film so captivating.

Then the third act comes and it completely changes what the film is about and that shift is abrupt and poorly thought out. Sunshine could be one of the all time greats if that last act was rewritten to continue the realistic story being told in the first 2 acts.

It's a shame really because Danny's directing was top notch, the score was very atmospheric and the suspense was building towards what seemed to be something special.

I recommend watching this at least once but be prepared for a third act that is a complete letdown.

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