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Monday, July 30, 2007
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
FILM IN BRIEF
I have no idea who
killed me
"I Know Who Killed Me"
At Quality 16 and Showcase
TriStar
"I Know Who Killed Me" is
not of this or any other world. It's
unremittingly awful, obsessed
with hyperbolically violent sex
fantasies of its star - when she's
not on a stripper pole, she's having
a body part amputated - but that
much is a surprise to no one. More
interesting is how totally bizarre
it turns out to be. Apparently
there is a girl (Lindsay Lohan, a
good actress in a role Katherine
Hepburn couldn't have sold) who
is kidnapped, sliced up and then
starts acting like a (stripper) char-
acter out of one of her stories. I
think ... wait.
Forget it. It's part torture porn,
part concept horror, part amateur
surrealism, and if that isn't enough,
it also has a surprising amount in
common with "The Parent Trap,"
the unassuming Disney remake
that first brought Lohan to our
attention nine years ago. Beat that.
JEFFREY BLOOMER
Ain't no sunshine
when we're gone
**** *
"Sunshine"
At the State and Quality 16
Fox Searchlight
With "2001: A Space Odyssey,"
Stanley Kubrick hypothesized we
are in a cyclical path of evolution
and destruction. James Cameron
and the Wachowski brothers pre-
dicted an apocalypse at the hands
of man-made robots in "Termina-
tor" and "The Matrix," respectively.
With "Sunshine," Danny Boyle ("28
Days Later") indulges the theory
that the end of the world will coin-
cide with the end of the sun, and he
does so in a manner almost worthy
of the previous directors and titles.
As the sun burns out sometime
in the distant, unspecified future, a
crew of eight is sent to ignite a fusion
bomb inthe sun's coreso as torestart
our dying star. Boyle expertly juggles
all the elements that make a sci-fi
space thriller engaging: the off-put-
ting comfort some experience amidst
the isolation of space, the desolate
solitude and silence in zero gravity
and the unshakable worry that fail-
ure or mishap is inevitable.
Sure enough,things begin to spiral
outofcontrolforthecrewasmembers
begin to die one by one. Thankfully
Boyle places special effects as a ter-
tiary elements in "Sunshine," which
is instead propelled by reasonable
and non-star driven (pun intended)
acting and a plot that doesn't waver
until the film's closing minutes. But
when this plot twist occurs, it's too
late tolose the audience,we are dying
to know whether the mission will be
asuccess or goup insolar flames.
ELIE ZWIEBEL
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