☀️ Is Sunshine (2007) still one of the best sci-fi movies of the century, or does it collapse the second Danny Boyle stops making a space drama?

For roughly eighty minutes, Sunshine is close to perfect. Eight astronauts ride a stellar bomb the size of Manhattan into a dying sun, and Boyle sells every second of it. He made the cast live together for weeks, marched them through a nuclear submarine, and hired particle physicist Brian Cox to teach them solar science. Cox is the reason that bomb is Manhattan-sized instead of Moon-sized. Then the third act arrives, a burned survivor from the first mission starts stalking the corridors in strobing flashes, and a gorgeous existential thriller turns into a slasher. Half the internet calls that a fatal wound. The other half calls it the best part.

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