Norihiro Koizumi
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Finch contains limited characters much like last year’s Midnight Sun and 2007’s I Am Legend.
Having said that, one must point out that Midnight Sun sadly has none of the charm of Meghie’s film, nor do Thorne and Schwarzenegger match up to Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) and Nick Robinson’s (Love, Simon) beautifully nuanced performances as the teenager lovers kept apart by a similar life threatening illness.
Based on a 2006 Japanese movie, Midnight Sun starts with Katie living a cloistered life, as her disease (shortened to “XP,” so that it always sounds like she’s afflicted with a computer operating system) makes her so sensitive to ultraviolet rays that she can never be exposed to sunlight.
If it sounds a little familiar, technically “Midnight Sun” is a remake of a 2006 Japanese film, but you’re more likely thinking of last year’s “Everything, Everything,” about a different teenage shut-in who couldn’t go outside … yet finds love.
The cast is perfectly charming, but when it isn’t predictably predictable and predictably sappy, Midnight Sun — based on a 2006 Japanese film of the same name — doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
But actually, Midnight Sun is an adaptation of a 2006 Japanese film of the same name (note: XP is six times more common in Japan, where the sufferers are known as “moon children”), directed by Step Up: Revolution and Step Up: All In director Scott Speer.
Midnight Sun is a remake of a 2006 Japanese film of the same name.
There was of course "The Fault in Our Stars," "Everything, Everything" and "Midnight Sun" just in the past couple of years, all featuring a love story between two teenagers drawn together by their dire circumstances.