Radiant (2005)

User Rating:

3.1/10   

Director:

Steve Mahone

Writer:

Steve Mahone (written by)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Four people, all haunted by chronic, misunderstood medical ailments, are accidentally exposed to an...

Cast

James Cable	...	Ed Moss
Jim Covault	...	Teller Blackpoole
Sandra Fish	...	Patricia Bates
Jeremy Schwartz	...	Michael Helfner
Matthew Tompkins	...	Ray Holden
Bobby Urutia	...	Agent
Laurel Whitsett	...	Molly Wick

Directed by
Steve Mahone

Writing credits
Steve Mahone		(written by)

Produced by
James Cable	....	producer
Matthew Tompkins	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Bruce Richardson

Cinematography by
Alan Ray

Film Editing by
Steven Baker

Makeup Department
Rodney Petreikis	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Jess Canales de Zamora	....	unit manager

Sound Department
Rodney Petreikis	....	sound mixer/boom op

Stunts
Matthew Tompkins	....	fight choreographer

Production Companies

• SILOmedia
• Wolfclan Productions

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

New Mexico, USA

Company:

SILOmedia

Boring

If you suffer from insomnia then Radiant would be the best way to send you into a 7-year coma. The film is so preposterously overwrought and mundane that it's hard to imagine that director Steve Mahone could overlook such obvious dullness.

The story has an exiled Doctor (who we never get to see) move out into the desert to create a vaccine that will cure all diseases by filling the hosts full of antibodies that can combat any infection (yes, just like that episode of Futurama). The vaccines don't work and the human guinea pigs become infected with a virus that kills within 48 hours.

Not wanting to be caught by the Government guys in masks the group head into the desert for cover, hoping that the sunshine will kill the virus. All of this is narrated by Michael, the only one of the quartet immune to the infection. And it's the most boring narration ever. They could have cast someone with an interesting voice but instead we get someone with less vocal personality than Clive Owen.

On top of this the editor insists on fade-cutting more than half the movie, giving it a weird dream-like feel and increasing the audiences desire to go to sleep. It's no surprise that half of the audience walked out of this, I was not one of them for some reason. But I bloody well should have.

The ending is supposed to be shocking and clever and foreboding. But it's plain and simply not. A relief yes, but not dramatic in the slightest.

The utter cheapness of this production and muffled sound that renders a lot of the dialogue unintelligible cripples what could have been an interesting sci-fi story if it had better actors, cooler locations and a sense of urgency. As it is, Radiant is a snoozefest.