Sunshine

Sunshine

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  • Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
  • Release Date: 2007-04-05
  • Runtime: 107 minutes
  • : 6.958
  • Production Company: Ingenious Media
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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6.958/10
6.958
From 3,706 Ratings

Description

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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Reviews

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    Danny Boyle has assembled a stellar (had to be said) cast for this rather far-fetched story. The crew of the "Icarus II" are charged with dragging a massive nuclear bomb towards the sun with a view to giving it a bit of a pick-me-up. It's dying, you see. Needless to say their journey is fraught with danger, made worse when they discover the wreckage of a previous ship sent on a similar mission many years earlier. When they board it, though, all is not as it seems and danger lurks! Alex Garland knows how to write a good story and Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne and Chris Evans work quite well together as the extra-terrestrial adventure gathers pace. The dialogue is not the best and the score overwhelms at times, but Boyle still manages to create quite a decent degree of peril mixing well the high quality special effects, a bit of sabotage, sexual tension and a good old-fashioned baddie.

  • whitsbrain

    6
    By whitsbrain
    This sci-fi thriller started so strong. It began as a hard science fiction film with a spaceship basically pushing a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan towards the Sun. The ship and crew's task is to reignite the dying Sun. The look and feel of the first half of the movie are wonderful. One of the best parts occurs early as the crew gets to witness the tiny planet Mercury passing between them and the Sun. The science of the movie; the 2001-"feel" of it, the repair of the ship and the golden space suits are really excellent. Unfortunately, in its last 30 minutes, **Sunshine** confuses, becoming more like _Event Horizon_. It also becomes quite confusing as Capa (Cillian Murphy) struggles or hallucinates, I'm not sure which, to complete the mission. It's difficult not to like **Sunshine** for its Sci-Fi wonders, but it falls off sharply in its final half.

  • Rolpbert

    8
    By Rolpbert
    In this movie, madness jeopardizes a mission essential to humanity's survival. It shows how faulty logic hardwired into our brains can make our lives less effective and meaningful. The movie gets a bit messy at the end and does a bit of cinematic mysticism which does not fit together with the rational message of the movie. Overall, this is one of my favorite movies because not a lot of movies try to send this particular message.

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