Sunshine

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Sunshine

R

2007

1h 47m

Sci-Fi

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In the not-too-distant future, Earth's dying sun spells the end for humanity. In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, a crew of eight men and women ventures into space with a device that could revive the star. However, an accident, a grave mistake and a distress beacon from a long-lost spaceship throw the crew and its desperate mission into a tailspin.

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Danny Boyle continues his descent into mind-twisting sci-fi madness, taking us along for the ride. Sunshine fulfills the dual requisite necessary to become classic sci-fi: dazzling visuals with intelligent action.

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

01/23/2019

2/4

The human interaction and tension works, how every single member can be sacrificed for the larger good of the humankind. But the acting is uniformly dull, the cast is deadpan, poker-faced and robotic at best.

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Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

09/22/2007

The picture would be nothing, an incomplete Venn diagram, without Murphy.

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John Hartl

Seattle Times

07/27/2007

2/4

Cluttered storytelling undermines Sunshine.

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Morgan Shaunette

Willamette Week

Jun 23

There’s beauty in it—Boyle and his team make a near-religious experience of getting up close and personal with the center of our solar system, buoyed by an effervescent score by John Murphy and British techno group Underworld.

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Cheryl Eddy

io9.com

Jun 20

Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland carefully seed the early part of the story with hints of the terrors to come.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

06/10/2024

4/5

The reteaming of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (28 Days Later) delivers an awe-inspiring, gorgeous film with an unexpected genre shift.

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Grayson M

@BigTaco90 Feb 8

Started off good. Cool concept. A few twists. But..... 1. Gravity rarely exists in this movie. 2. The ships tiny heat shield would not protect it as it detaches from its payload. 3. Only having 1 specialist in each area... not knowing how to do someone else's job is a joke.. 4. No one herd of sun screen? 5. Where's this viewing window from the sun if your at the back of the ship and you have a ridiculous sized heatshield/payload in front of you.. 6. Space jumping without a suit is a thing. But.... it was different... and i didn't mind all the horrid science behind it.. if you like your scifi and dont mind shitty science... its watchable

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Daniel L

Jan 24

Strange movie. Have watched this a few times now in the hope that it will get better with each watch but it doesn't. Sadly it's just like every other space movie where somthing goes wrong and people die. Very slow and not overly entertaining.

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Rym J

@RymJeuz Jan 18

Had a really strong start with the space travel and the mystery of Icarus I. I was pretty annoyed by the choice to make the horror scenes all distorted. like, what was the point of that?

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S K

@SDK9001 Jan 17

Solid visuals, first half of the movie is fairly engaging, final portion was somewhat goofy. And I’m no cosmologist, but I’m thinking if you got anywhere close to the sun, the heat/radiation/gravity would destroy any kind of vehicle. But who knows?

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Brandon K

@TheKeizer Dec 15

A surpassingly dramatic and intense space movie, never seen anything like this before.

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ACE F

Nov 30

The entire plot falls apart because it depends upon a mission commander going crazy merely because he looks at the sun when they get closer to it, which isn't a thing that can EVER happen to ANYONE. He must also go crazy in a very, very specific way that will destroy his spaceship's mission, despite being surrounded by ~7 other strong & capable people who could stop him. AND THEN the "I went crazy for no reason" guy must hang out for 7 years and then do it all over again to a SECOND ship!

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Synopsis

In the not-too-distant future, Earth's dying sun spells the end for humanity. In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, a crew of eight men and women ventures into space with a device that could revive the star. However, an accident, a grave mistake and a distress beacon from a long-lost spaceship throw the crew and its desperate mission into a tailspin.

Director: Danny Boyle
Producer: Andrew Macdonald
Screenwriter: Alex Garland
Distributor: Fox
Production Co: DNA Films, Moving Picture Company, Ingenious Film Partners
Rating: R (Violent Content|Language)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 27, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.7M
Runtime: 1h 47m

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