10 Awesome Movies With Terrible Endings

10. Sunshine - The Bizarre Slasher Conclusion

Bringing together an absolutely stacked cast, led by the magnificent Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle appeared to be on to an absolute winner throughout his creepy sci-fi voyage known as Sunshine.

Over the course of the futuristic thriller, viewers follow a team of astronauts on a mission to save their freezing planet by reigniting a Sun that is about to die. 

Things begin to go spectacularly wrong as the team on the Icarus II attempt to intercept the first ship to try this sort of vital mission, Icarus I, with their own transport being damaged, crew members being killed, and all kinds of chaos ensuing as they look to add that ship's bomb to the one they're already carrying. 

Two shots are better than one, after all.

Then it all just gets a little weird.

Leaning way too far into slasher movie territory on the back of a largely slow burn tale of moral dilemmas and the dangers of space travel, it's soon revealed that someone did actually survive that first failed mission. 

Mark Strong's insane Icarus I survivor then proceeds to hunt down the remaining crew members of the Icarus II for much of the disappointing closing stretch, with all that wonderful dread and tension built up by Boyle and writer Alex Garland during the majority of the movie being squandered by this jarring genre-switch late on.

At least that mad, burned-up Pinbacker couldn't keep them from completing the mission, though. So, that's something.