Midnight Sun


In this teen flick, Bella Thorne stars as Katie Price, a 17 year old with a rare genetic disorder known as Xeroderma Pigmentosum which impairs the body's ability to repair ultraviolet damage: she's a "vampire" (minus the blood sucking). Due to the disease, Katie has to stay indoors and her sole companions were her father, her friend Morgan and her guitar. From her sun-proof bedroom window, Katie watches Charlie Reed (Patrick Schwarzenegger) pass by everyday and develops a crush for him. As fate would have it, they both meet, fall in love and ..........am sure you have guessed right now what the conclusion would be.
Midnight Sun is bland, it's like watching another version of movies like A Walk to Remember and Everything, Everything. We have the young love, the usual emotional scenes bound to make you cry (I might have had a bit of shine in my eyes once or twice) and as usual the particular illness is portrayed wrongly just to get you to cry some more. Not surprisingly, Shane West was the second assistant director (he starred as Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember) am sure he shared his wisdom on how to make this movie more tearful.
Anyway, let's just say Midnight Sun definitely did not make my dream of watching a work of art come true but for fans of melodrama, it's journey might just appeal to you. Laterz

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