Sunshine the Movie

Review of Sunshine Movie

I always want Danny Boyle movies to be great but his record really is more misses than hits. This snoozefest is yet another miss.

Kubrick has a lot to answer for. It's like everyone is trying to out-do him by making the most boring space walk of all time. Boyle succeeds.

We get no character introduction at all, so as various calamities befall them, you really don't give a crap. Plot? Deliver bomb to sun to restart it. Previous mission failed. Things go badly. The end.

I assume the "you have no idea what's going on" school of camera-work is mandatory in a space movie but it hits a nadir here. It took me five minutes to realise the two ships had docked!

As for spooky melted skin man, cmon, about as scary as Wurzle Gummidge.

Generally I hate it when everyone in a movie dies but in this case it was appropriate with the only let-down being that the director and scriptwriter didn't join them.