Hello Sunshine

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2008)

Unlike some (many?) other reviewers, I prayed for sun light. I could've left the cinema, but I went into a late screening, so no hope there ... but seriously: This was a waste of time. Begins good (if you extract the obvious and bland character bits), but get's unbearably every minute that passes by ... I'm glad it isn't told in real time!
Back to some positive things: Josh Hartnett plays the lead role here and he's surprisingly good (for me he is at least). The lead vampire is OK, too. That's about it ... OK there's a bit gore that can excite you here and there, but that doesn't really get my blood flowing (pun intended) ... and speaking of which: Melissa might be good looking, but she can't really act, if her life depended on it (oops another pun?)!
What could've been the problem one might ask, with a plot outline like that (see somewhere here on IMDb for that)? Since I read interviews with the main players, I think I have an answer to that: They didn't know what they were shooting! From Josh over to Melissa, over to the head vampire up to the director, everyone had another genre they thought this movie belonged in ... Wanna know the real fun part? No one mentioned horror and/or vampire movie! Yeah right! Guess we have our reason, why the movie did suck at the end of the day (aww man, two puns in one sentence? There's no better way to end a review than this ...)