Warning: This review will contain spoilers. If you haven't seen Sunshine, don't read this unless you really don't care about spoilers.
The story of Sunshine is that our sun is dying and it's up to a group of scientists and astronauts to travel to the sun and reignite it with a bomb the size of Manhattan island. It seems pretty straightforward, but they end up going off course and we all know that that NEVER ends well.
This movie surprised me. I knew that it would be gorgeous to look at, but I was impressed about the depth of the script and characters. I thought that they would just run into some problems when trying to reignite the sun. That does happen, but not in the way you'd expect it it happen. The characters are exactly what you'd expect a group of geniuses in space would be. You've got your central character played by Cillian Murphy, the guy with some common sense played by Chris Evans and the spineless second in command played by Troy Garity. Their characters are believable because wouldn't you be freaked out if you were in space and had cabin fever?
As I predicted, the visuals were stunningly original. They were visually striking and thrilling. There are multiple scenes that are not only thrilling, but I personally found them fairly disturbing. In one scene, Troy Garity gets sucked out into space and freezes to death. After freezing, his body drifts toward an antenna and his arm shatters. That scene disturbed me, and I loved it.
Final Report: Sunshine is original, creative, dark, disturbing, thrilling and gorgeous. What more do you want in a sci-fi movie?
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