15 Potentially Awesome Films Undermined By Their Terrible Endings

Has a film ever gone from modern classic to Razzie-worthy trash as fast as Danny Boyle's almost-brilliant Sunshine? It's unlikely.

With Boyle directing, Alex Garland writing and a great cast performing it, Sunshine is awesome for much of its run-time and makes for a visually magnificent, painfully tense thrill ride. Then, both the film's characters (a group of astronauts on a mission to reignite the dying sun) and the film itself get hit by a huge problem in the form of Pinbacker (Mark Strong), the insane captain and sole survivor of another mission that tried to reignite the sun. He gets onto their ship and starts killing all the astronauts.

Tragically, as soon as he shows up, the film descends into a dumb, boring and insanely annoying slasher movie that isn't even a tenth as scary or suspenseful as the horror-free material earlier in the film.

Watching Sunshine is like watching a magnificent work of art being painted in front of you, only to watch all that wonderful, painstaking work disintegrate. The sun is reignited (albeit at the cost of the lives of all the astronauts) so at least the world is saved, but other than that this is one of the worst film endings of all time.