movie review!

time for movie review again! watched 2 movies recently with promising start but slight letdown at the end. here go!

#23 (spoilers ahead)
caught this show with hubbi last sunday. had rather high expectations for the premise of the show sounded really intriguing/entertaining & its one of jim carrey's rare foray into serious films.

plot is simple: one man stumbled upon a book, aptly named #23, which had a protagonist who is obsessed with the no.23. suddenly, carrey's character realised many disturbing similarities between him & the book character. & everywhere he turns, the no.23 is prevalent. his life is moving in almost the same direction as the book. which is a bad idea, cos the book character ended up killing his lover, & carrey's character has no wish to kill his wife. so what he must do (or so he think), is to find out who's the author & solve the mystery before the bad deed happens.

the show was good in the beginning where we just chugged along with the flow of the show (which is kinda fast). n no.23 is really everywhere, so fun! lolz.
but as the show progress, i can almost see the twist coming up. and the ending is let down by the totally predictable, safe twist.
in short, carrey IS the author himself. having a dark past & conveniently suffer from memory loss after writing the book. fate had it that the book found him again, n he get to clear his skeletons in the closet.
*yawn*

i would much prefer the author to be the wife & see how the plot ties it back. but perhaps just too hard for hollywood nowadays. bah!

sunshine (spoilers ahead also)
met up with jx & dan yesterday for this show. watch it mostly for cillian murphy. hehe. i remember i 1st saw him in "28 days later" & was thinking this guy 的眼睛真的是misty 的不可以! so pretty! then i saw him again in "red eye" & think ewww this guy looks weird. what i didnt know IS he looks weird in "28 days". lolz.
still his eyes are gorgeous! just look at 'em in "sunshine"!

okie, back to the show. plot is simple too: 50 years down the road, the sun is dying so earth needs to send out a team on mission to "re-ignite" it with a stellar bomb (using almost all nuclear resources on earth). the show started with our cast, an 8-person team of scientists/astronauts setting off in spaceship - Icarus II. as all missions in space are, things started going awry when they receive signals from Icarus I, the 1st team to be send out 7 years back & which disappear ever since. making a detour to Icarus 1, hell break loose. whatever can go wrong in space (scientifically) WENT wrong.

it was really good so far. the problems seem real, the way the characters respond/react seem logical & the CGI effect of the space & sun really leave you kinda breathless. humans are really like so small in comparison to the vast galaxy!

but as all seemingly good shows, sunshine has to introduce a totally irrelvant & letdown twist in the last 20 mins. which totally ruin the show! bah! bah! bah!
i'm gonna spoil it here: apparantly, the previous captain from Icarus I went religious-mad & think that its god's will that humankind should die out. so somehow he managed to get all Icarus I members (except himself of cos) to abandon the mission & just die. and he sneaked into Icarus II & create havoc in the last 20 mins of the show.

i HATE this part. i HATE him!
1) all astronauts should be tested & deemed physically & psychologically fit before setting off such a mission. how come he just turn siao halfway!
2) why is he still alive (all burnt up in scarred skin is very ridiculous) & so strong DESPITE being trapped in the spaceship for like 7 years (read: no exercise n boredom can kill just almost anything!)?! and if he's sure its inevitable that humankind will die, why didnt he die with his crew?! selfish pig!
3) simply cos he made this great science-fi show degenerates into some cheap gore slasher film at the end! *grr*

okie, enough about my angst.
im ready for my lunchie. n hope this working week will whizzes past! *wee*