While its first two acts earn their advancement through the course of time, its final 25 minutes set it back to prehistoric times and I just can't throw it a bone.
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07/19/07
Sunshine (2007)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:112
Rotten:39
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:06-04-2007
Synopsis: Danny Boyle has excelled in nearly every genre he's touched from the family film (MILLIONS) to the zombie movie (28 DAYS LATER) to the drug-fuelled drama (TRAINSPOTTING). With SUNSHINE, he brings... [More]
Reviews for Sunshine
Sunshine is a sight to be seen. But it is also more.
07/19/07
Sunshine will appeal to the many science fiction fans out there and offers a believably wrought tale steeped in science fact.
07/19/07
Brightness has never seemed as menacing as it does in Sunshine, the nail-bitingly tense science-fiction thriller.
07/19/07
Top CriticDanny Boyle gets some tension going, and, as the crew members are eliminated one by one, a cosmic despair sets in.
07/19/07
Near-classic modern science fiction.
07/19/07
...the most ravishingly atmospheric movie I’ve seen all year. This is not primarily a look-at-my-gizmos dog-and-pony show, though Boyle does amazing things with light to create a self-contained world trapped in space.
07/19/07
Bears the mark of all really good sci-fi flicks: After you see it, the world just doesn't look the same.
07/19/07
With an intriguing premise, stellar visuals and an ending that spirals out of control, genre-jumper Danny Boyle's sci-fi effort is familiar without being dull.
07/19/07
Flickers of incoherence serve as foreshadowing for the chaotic climax, which doesn't resemble Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as much as it does The Shining.
07/19/07
Sunshine has a more ethereal look than the average science fiction movie but, considering the subject matter, it works.
07/18/07
While the unfathomable burning brightness of the sun bathes the whole picture in flashes of cinematic dazzle, Boyle and his team ground the story in details chosen for their sophisticated, underplayed authenticity.
07/18/07
As with 28 Days Later, [director Danny] Boyle makes Sunshine almost literally unwatchable.
07/18/07
What starts out as a fairly worthy attempt to make a 2001 or Solaris for the new millennium winds up being just another overblown genre film.
07/18/07
Funny thing is, Sunshine works despite feeling both over-familiar and over-ambitious.
07/17/07
The early intensity of Sunshine wanes in the third act. The film becomes a ferocious jumble, and rather than a supernova finish, it winks out amid stale New Age notions of the continuity of life and connectedness of all things.
07/17/07
Though it takes its principal cues from an earlier tradition, it panders to no one in terms of its own vision.
07/17/07
Goes from 2001-style contemplative science-fiction to more action-driven sci-fi as perfected by James Cameron to, for better or worse, horror.
07/16/07
The first hour and change is gangbusters, the last part unnerving enough to get by.
07/16/07
Danny Boyle doesn't reinvent or break new ground, but he's created a beautiful and haunting film that sticks in your brain for some time.
07/16/07
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