Sunshine

Sunshine takes liberally from the sci-fi vault: 2001, 2010, The Abyss… The Core. It’s never boring, but it lacks skillful foreshadowing and certain revelations seem to come out of nowhere. If you force yourself, you can help Danny Boyle et al justify these cheesy twists, but that also makes you start poking holes in the logic, which should not be the point. Ultimately, the theme, a worthwhile one about avoiding space travel with religious nut-jobs, gets pushed aside by the thankfully relentless plot, which, if given room to breathe for a nanosecond, would implode into antimatter. Worth a look, if for no other reason than at least it’s not a sequel.