Tonight I watched the movie Sunshine (2007). I picked it up because I like Cillian Murphy in a couple other movies.

The basic plot is that the sun is dying and a group of 7 astronauts have to lob a nuclear weapon the size of Manhattan into the sun to re-ignite it to full brightness. Preposterous sounding I know, but after watching the movie, there is some back story that isn't presented in the movie. Apparently there is a Q-ball in the sun, that must be destroyed. The nuclear device is an experimental weapon where the mass of the moon is contained in the size of Manhattan. It is still a rather preposterous concept, but at least they tried.

The ship was named Icarus II and is a character itself in the movie. The first Icarus was also tasked with the same mission, but was mysteriously lost 7 years earlier. Why I think the ship is a character as well is because I was trying to figure out the ship's form and what things did on the structure. As things get worse throughout the movie, the ship also gets worse.

The movie itself was pretty interesting and gripping. I thought it was going to go to the hackneyed places that most modern sci-fi movies try to go, but it didn't really do that.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I'd watch it again.