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- 2007
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2007
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
Summary The sun is dying. It is no longer providing the energy and the light that mankind needs to survive on Earth. The entire global community pools its resources to send a mission into space to deliver a bomb to reignite the part of the sun that is failing. Our story concerns the eight astronauts and scientists who lead this mission. On their...
Directed By: Danny Boyle
Written By: Alex Garland
- 2007
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2007
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
Sunshine
64
7.4
Where to Watch
Summary The sun is dying. It is no longer providing the energy and the light that mankind needs to survive on Earth. The entire global community pools its resources to send a mission into space to deliver a bomb to reignite the part of the sun that is failing. Our story concerns the eight astronauts and scientists who lead this mission. On their...
Directed By: Danny Boyle
Written By: Alex Garland
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
64
74% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
24% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
64
74% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
24% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A bare outline of the plot reads like a space-adventure thriller with end-of-the-world stakes and a hint of celestial spirituality, and the haunted spaceship twist in the third act is pure B-movie madness.
Sunshine is its own creature, taking inspiration from classic science fiction films but insisting on a gritty reality that much improves on past space adventures.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 278 User Ratings
7.4
75% Positive
209 Ratings
209 Ratings
21% Mixed
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
4% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 278 User Ratings
7.4
75% Positive
209 Ratings
209 Ratings
21% Mixed
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
4% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
This movie is immaculate - inspirational music, stellar cast, incredible writing and fantastic directing.
Perfection.
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The fact that Boyle and Garland have here created something close to an actual trip rather than the mere spectacle that most screen sci-fi contents itself with being nowadays is enough to recommend Sunshine.
The most indelible moment I took away from Sunshine, in which a tiny figure in a golden space suit floats away from the ship into the gravitational pull of the sun, is one of ecstatic, appalling loneliness.
So what starts out as fascinating sci-fi becomes just fi, and winds up pulp fi.
It's one big miss.
Directed by Danny Boyle, it lacks even a single moment of charm or interest.
This movie is just an amazing, very compelling and highly underrated Triumph! It has everything what a great movie needs. It is, exciting, thrilling, moving, visually outstanding, it plays with symbolism, asks and explores philosophical and moral questions in a profound way and and and the work and effort they have put in that movie is remarkable. A Masterpiece to me! ... Can't believe how little it made in the box office ...
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Sunshine is a film that borrows heavily from the science fiction films that came before it, namely "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Solaris", and "Alien", but does not quite reach the heights of those films. Instead of sticking with its science fiction premise, it opts to go all slasher movie and weird on us towards the end, which is ultimately what turned me off significantly from this one. Beginning with the positives, the world created here is super intriguing and very interesting. You get the problem facing this crew and as things progress or regress on their journey, you feel excited or feel bad for them. That is very important for these types of films. In addition, the special effects are splendid and the acting from the entire, very large, cast is great. Everybody did a superb job there. The direction from Danny Boyle is alright, nothing to write home about, but I do blame him a good bit for the way this one falls apart at the end. It is a movie about people traveling to the sun, so some suspension of disbelief is required, but the ending was far too much for me. Without going off the deep end there and then using that weirdness to turn this one in a low-key slasher film, this one would have been way better. On top of that, the ending significantly dragged. The preceding, say, hour and 10 minutes were absolutely riveting and had you invested in the characters, while also forcing you to the edge of your seat on multiple occasions. By the time that last half hour kicks in, you just want it to be over. However, I will say, the absolute end of this one saves the preceding half hour by being very moving and leaving the viewer on the brink of tears. Thus, it saddens me even more that, towards the end, this one burned up in the sun or else it could have been far better. It had the pieces, but what it did with those pieces was not to my liking.
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I went to see this movie thinking to enjoy some hardcore sci-fi disaster movie, but I was unpleasantly surprised. While the sci-fi concept was interesting, but halfway through the first part of the movie, it was clear the story has taken a different direction. While that normally should not be a problem to enoy a movie, if the story actually have been setup smartly it would have worked out fine. In this movie however you have to suspend belief so much that it was kind of off putting. I cannot consider this movie as an sci-fi movie, but as an arthouse movie at most, because the story leans very much to the conceptual and metaphorical aspect of it, even on the metaphysical world, but with no clear purpose and poorly worked out.
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What stood out immediately about this film was that it looked beautiful. The cinematography was truly awesome. The special effects, the framing, the depth-of-field all were fantastic to look at. After a few minutes of this I realised that the beauty was overshadowed by a painfully awful story. It was genuinely tedious. Nothing happened for most of the movie and it numbed my mind into hell. When the monster (as they had to be) showed up it was hardly seen because of the way that it was shot. This seemed a good idea at the start but it soon became annoying. So, overall it looked good but apart from the time that you first see the monster it is a boring emotionless waste. Amazing cinematography let down by a tedious story. Event Horizon (1997) is way better!
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Awards
Scream Awards
• 4 Nominations
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 4 Nominations
Evening Standard British Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
