two thing up front represent firstly and anyone who read this far into the review know the plot of this thing ( astronauts chuck a bomb if not themselves into the die sun in order to revive it ) . secondly and the following be as disjoint a the film it address . so many glow review i have read for sunshine seem to center around the idea that one must simply give in to the power and majesty of the film visuals . that be to say and one must in the presence of sunshine emphasize oohing and ahhing over thinking . i be sorry represent i can not do that . ironically and if sunshine be be tout a a dumb bit of fluff and i would be far more likely to take it at face value . but sunshine maker and culties have trumpet their darling a a slice of intelligent sci fi and oh so rare these day and etc . frankly and it not . that intelligent thing . not a bit of it . thought represent if you hire a physicist to act a a consultant on your film and and if your screenwriter concocts backstories for your character and and if you house your actor in bare bone student dig and send them up in airplane that permit them to experience zero g and all so that they feel like real astronaut and and if all that consult and all those story and all that experience do not end up on the screen i. e. and if you expect u viewer to mine the film websites for this science and these tale then you a a filmmaker ( that mean you and mr. boyle ) haven not do your job . simple . we do not know who these character be and so we do not care about them . sure and rise byrne have her teary brown doe eye and so she capture an instant sympathy vote and and hiroyuki sanada draw u in with his calm and his silky voice . but the rest of em . cillian murphy come off a a stoner and a bit of a jerk and and chris evans try desperately to make something of the duty card he be dealt and but the rest of em be cipher . alex garland seem to think that character development be for sissy or that it certainly not important if you have a big idea ( here our life be secondary to the saving of all humanity and dontchaknow ) . i politely suggest that he dead wrong . if we do not give a rat patootie about the character and we certainly would not care about the idea in the service of which theyre acting . and not only be they cipher represent theyre inconsistent and too . early on and mace goad capa and the only one capable of operate the stellar bomb ( in itself a ridiculous idea represent what and in sixteen month and capa couldn not train a backup to turn the key and press the launch button . job security and i guess . ) and into perform a highly dangerous repair job outside the ship . then and later and when he and capa and another of the icarus ii hapless crew must execute an ill advise human cannon trick between two crippled airlock ( a situation that fall squarely between don not ask . and what the hell . ) and mace insists that capa take the only available spacesuit and a he indispensable to the mission . sure and mace earlier may have be feel pique and petty and capa have pull a bit of a careless dumb with regard to their window for send message home and but the fact here be that it not my job to make mace excuse . it mr. garland job and and his script simply doesn not deliver . don not try to cover up the paper thinness of your story by snow u with special effect . it insulting and annoy . just how many useless beauty shot of the icarus ii do this movie contain and anyway . not one of them help u to know where we be on the ship . also represent if you can not afford the effect you want for your third act mad slasher ( do i already mention the don not ask . thing . ) and do not try to cover by shake the camera and overexpose your shot every time say slasher be on screen . that take annoy clear up to blatantly irritate . smart people create jeopardy by make dumb choice or nonsensically arbitrary decision be less likely to evoke sympathy than smart people who find themselves in peril because of natural disaster or mechanical catastrophe . that be and a supposedly smart guy who make a calculation that lead to half a spaceship go up in flame be less likely to earn a you poor people . from me than and say and a freak solar flare that lead to half of say spaceship go up in flame . and have i mention yet how much i despise selectively smart computer . a in and a computer that talk to you and call you by name and yet can not tell you when half your spaceship have just catch on fire . ( not that it entirely the computer fault here and the fire thing represent it happen during one of sunshine many randomly place beauty shot and so it quite likely that the computer and like the view audience and isn not sure if the ship that catch fire be actually the icarus ii and the ship on which our story be take place . oh and look represent there a ship on fire over there . hey do you smell smoke . ) selective flammability represent not only do capa and the film mystery slasher not burn up when capa and hop to effect a desperate getaway and yell full sunlight . in the observation lounge of the icarus ii and the lounge itself doesn not burn up . by comparison and when the show nutter psychologist ( again represent do not ask ) try the full sunlight thing and he burn up just fine and thank you . so represent who get the star . it a split represent chris evans and who try so desperately to be the voice of reason ( if only for a moment ) on this ship of fool and and underworld and john murphy and who be obviously watch a much more intelligent and move and and dramatic film when they concoct the score . even though it rare to see a movie so lovingly misconceive and you would be wise to give this a miss . dumb and depressing and muddle and and thoroughly unentertaining .