i go into the cinema with mixed expectation . the premise a team of scientist send with a giant bomb to return our die sun to normal level seem b movie material of the bad kind . i could just imagine card board cut out character and clichéd plot twist and a truck of scientific error . yet this be direct by danny boyle ( trainspotting and 28 day later ) so who know and maybe he could work the same magic he do on zombie flick on the disaster in space sub genre . i be surprise to report sunshine deliver on all of these point . cillian murphy and star of 28 day later and return a ship primary physicist and capa . he and the rest of the 8 crew member of manhattan size bomb icarus ii be on a mission to fix the sun and which be cool perilously . 16 month in and something force a change of plan . the previous ( fail ) expedition be discover float in orbit of our star . it when capa make the decision that they change course for the icarus i that thing start go wrong . one small mistake lead to great danger and which cause more havoc and force the desperate saviour of humanity to take even more dangerous risk and so on and all culminating in an insane and murderous survivor rampage through the ship with a motorised scalpel . up until actually reach the icarus i and it all so apollo 13 and so good . spot on characterisation and beautiful long shot and rather familiar set design ( watch out for the cockpit ) . but it when sunshine try to be a psychological thriller and a sci fi and a horror flick and an action movie that it all start to go horribly wrong a a film . it lose direction maybe because danny boyle be too busy look over the computer graphic guys shoulder and say ooh and that look cool . hey and how about we obscure half the action . or put in pseudo subliminal image . or blur the screen . orstoptheframe . addsomeghostingthere . andthere . andblurthis . andputaflashoflightthere . individually and each graphic trick that boyle try look really and really cool and usually flow properly but when he throw them into the movie like picasso throw paint and it get very tire awfully quickly . quite frankly and it give me a headache even to remember it . what plot be full of hole and too . some may actually have be explain but i must have blink during those frame . for example and and bad by far and be that they seem to ignore the effect of the sun gravity for the most part . if an object be thrust parallel with the spin of the sun and gravity should pull them towards it in a curve but instead they travel in a totally straight line . bah . it such a shame that sunshine end up so incomprehensible and random because it be pack full of good idea . it apparent that they try to do too much at once and weren not critical enough to get rid of the stuff that be un necessary or do not work . still and the less of two evil theme run through certainly make food for thought . it refresh to see such sensible character who know what at stake . would you kill a friend to save humanity and all the solar system . what about three friend . more . that the question isn not it . i can not recommend watch this film . it smart and it oh so beautiful and it well act . but it have collapse under it own weight into nothing more than sun scorch stardust . go watch pitch black and or dig out that old vhs of apollo 13 and alien or the abyss . anything . just not this .