Only thing I would agree with the reviewer on is the music.John Murphy did a superb job on the film score. I could name loads of films worse than Sunshine.The fact that it was made on a small budget in a East London film studio deserves credit when you see the billions squandered in Hollywood on crappy remakes of classic horror films like The Wicker Man and The Omen.

I came by this review because, watching it on tv, I missed the flims intro and the part about why they changed course. I figured it must be a really good reason. The fact that the only reason was “to check out the other ship that failed” lowered my already flagging estimation of the film. I had also missed that it was supposed to be only 50 years in the future, and that just added insult to injury.

I can forgive some things like where the computer cannot change course, or doing any of that because the crew wasn’t supposed to change course. I can also forgive not having a spare part for everything on board, because if you allow yourself to follow the logic of the film, it’s a last-ditch attempt to fix a dying sun.

I don’t know why people rave about the visuals. They’re ok for the most part, but some of the psychotic visuals are more likely to give epileptic fits than anything else.

The ending was probably the worst and was totally anticlimactic. After all the (confused and muddled) buildup, the bomb is released quickly, easily and successfully. They should have stamped a big THE END over the Sydney scene to remind people to go to bed. To be fair, maybe the visuals department had run out of money or were already so thoroughly disheartened they also just wanted to go back to bed.

This film is only good if 1) you mute the audio or 2) can erase any memory of anything that’s happened more than a minute ago.

As to @Kei and @The Epic One’s comment on genre, this is just a space horror / fiction film. Just because the setting is space doesn’t make it science fiction.

Anyways, I enjoyed Sunshine… I thought the review was really nit-picky lol… The clunky suit – well come on he needs to be protected from the SUN! Broken Ship – Well how many ships have to make a trip to the sun? Maybe they just miscalculated? etc… whatever… lol you can say anything to fight back what you said in your review… Overall it received good ratings… but to be honest I hadn’t even heard of the movie until my fiance and his best friend (Who both hate almost any movie) told me I should watch it. And… it was awesome. :-) Of course, I wouldn’t watch it if it wasn’t on bluray on a HDTV… but hey! :)