In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A major disappointment, and utter waste of our evening. :( Why do people like this nonsense ???

To avoid spoilers, let's just consider the premise:Sun, the single biggest thermonuclear reactor (or bomb, if you like that better) within 4+ lightyears, "stops" somehow and it can be "rebooted" with a bomb (!) To do that, we can deliver that bomb through the mass of the entire star right into the center, and that within a few seconds, though that would require a speed near or beyond that of light.If we solved those problems, why bother with the Sun? Let's just travel to the next habitable world, it's easy.Let's ignore that the Sun couldn't "stop" from being the thermonuclear bomb it is simply because of its own mass and pretend it does exactly that by some miracle (which is truly the only way it could happen). Guess how long it would take for a piece of coal roughly 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the weight of the piece you use for your BBQ? (That's an actual estimate by the way, not just a bunch of zeros.)This (and all the other impossibilities) make this movie unwatchable for anybody with even a hint of critical thinking not because these things are impossible but because the movie fails to communicate that it takes place in an alternative universe where the laws of physics don't apply.

The premise of a group of people alone in space has been done many times before Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" and it has been done since then and it will probably continue to be done over and over again. But what these films rarely nail is the atmosphere of isolation, claustrophobia, and our insignificance in the face of the vast emptiness of space, which is why "Sunshine" is so engrossing and exciting to watch - and why it is so disappointing in its last 20 minutes.The film starts during the dying gasps of humanity. One ship (which is fittingly named Icarus) with a bomb strapped to it to be launched into the dying sun as an attempt to create a "star within a star" has already failed for unknown reasons, so a new ship with a crew of seven has been sent to try and accomplish this same mission. This is humanity's last chance at salvation.In the first shot of the film, the ship is shown as a tiny black blip engulfed by the size of the sun. There is a room solely for the purpose of viewing the sun, obviously with modifications so that it won't fry your eyeballs. This room is one way that the crew members try to maintain their hope for their mission and their sanity. Another is apparently by sending video messages back to their friends and family, but the film starts at the moment when the messages can no longer reach Earth. While Capa (Cillian Murphy) is able to send out one final hopeful message to his family, Mace (Chris Evans) is unable to, and blames Capa for making him wait too long. This seems to be the beginning of the crew's downward spiral.As they pass Mercury, the crew suddenly hears a signal coming from its surface. This is one of the only movies where the scientists in it act like actual scientists. Of course, they make mistakes, because they are also human, but when a problem such as this arises, they consider all of the possible benefits and risks that could arise from both decisions and eventually leave it up to the crew member that is most educated for this particular situation. They argue, and they each have equally understandable opinions on what they should do, but they never jump to conclusions. All the scientific explanation that is done also feels much less forced than other films of this type because it is made clear that everyone on the ship specializes in something different, such as botany, or psychology, or physics, or piloting, and of course there is overlap between all of them but when a scientific subject is being explained to other characters, it doesn't feel like something they should already know. In other words, it feels like explanation that would logically be delivered to the characters in the film, not just something they needed to explain to the audience at home.Despite the film's sense of overwhelming impending doom, you are never quite sure what exactly will happen in the film, just that the end result isn't going to be good. What helps build this unsettling atmosphere is the eerie score for the film, as well as the claustrophobic camera work, with many tight, confined shots down the corridors of the ship, and Dutch camera angles, so it always feels like something is askew. And I know that a film based entirely in space with 2007 CGI and special effects may not sound like it would hold up, but the visuals are surprisingly gorgeous and detailed, with a clear understanding of how to blend practical effects and CGI to create a convincing environment.It's a shame that the tension that slowly builds throughout the film ends up being ruined by a rushed and nonsensical ending. After a certain character is suddenly introduced that has no logical explanation to be in the ship, or in the film at all, it suddenly becomes a corny slasher film. And by that I mean the character literally has a voice like Freddy Kreuger and spouts lines dumber than that intentionally dumb horror villain. To add insult to injury, they have a sugarcoated solution in the end that feels like it came out of an entirely different film.But the unintentionally funny ending doesn't make the entire film bad. The first hour and 25 minutes is still one of the most immersive, smartly written, and visually stunning sci-fi thrillers I've ever seen.

Scifi movies are most often a one gimmick story. There may be a monster, like Godzilla, a prison planet, a Moon or Mars colony, time travel. This particular movie is about averting the Apocalypse. In the future, people send a huge ship to reignite the sun which is dying. We have seen this done the cowboy way in Deep Impact and Armageddon. In this movie, the people manning the ship are scientists and astronauts. So, they are boring people who do boring stuff like calculating collision courses and having philosophical discussions.So, what could have gone wrong? Well, first thing is that they killed the best characters first. Second is that they tried to insert some God/Satan stuff in in some ill-advised and ambiguous way. And third, really nothing interesting happens between the beginning and the end of the movie. We knew from the beginning they were going to bomb the sun. They end up bombing it. So, what is there to surprise us, anyway? Still, the acting performances were good in spite of the actors not having much to work with. Camera work was great, except for the dumb action scenes at the end. The filmmakers tried to confuse the audience, I suspect, because they were confused themselves about what meaning to give to the sabotage on board of the ship. Hence the hand held camera and the blurred sequences.