Daybreakers – Reviewed by Tyler – 2 stars

A clever twist on the vampire genre, and no they are not all reverse vampires who have to get home before dark. However this movie lacks a decent storyline, back story and then at the end just leaves you wondering WTF just happened and why do I suspect Daybreakers 2 to be coming in the next year…

The movie starts off with a vampire that kills herself via sunlight because she doesn’t want to live as a vampire…..then that’s it; nothing else was a result of the opening scene. Sure throughout the movie we see how some vampires are unhappy with the way things ended up, but to make that the opening scene was just very random.

The lack of a back story really bothered me a lot in this movie. The majority of the world’s population is now vampires and only a few humans running around, and all we are told how this happened is some kind of infection from 10 years ago. That just seems like a lazy way to explain how things ended up, and I would be ok with that if there wasn’t so much “vampire magic” in the movie. What do I mean by that? Well, I could believe that a virus or something caused people to get sick, mutate or even get mind-fucked. But to magically change them into actual vampires with all the cheesy, unrealistic powers that old movies would say they have….No reflection (even though I seen many mistakes of this), turn into bats (more or less), sunlight =   , stakes to the heart (which apparently doesn’t beat so what does that really do?) and a few other cheesy vampire effects.

The movie did have a funny aspect to it with some decent acting from Sam Neill and William Dafoe, but all the other characters were dull, boring sacks of vampire food. I didn’t find myself really caring for anyone of them. I’m not sure how serious they were trying to be when they made this move, at some points it seems like they are just jumping on the vampire bandwagon with a basic story and hoping to cash in but at other points it still seems like a great concept for a vampire movie. They just needed to put some of that money from the many over the top gore scenes and put it into more store line.

In the end, I walked out of Daybreakers entertained and laughing, and that’s all you should really expect if you want to dish out some buck-a-roos for this film. If you thought the Blade movies were super awesome fun then you might enjoy this a little more than a person with a sense of worth and taste in movies.

2 Stars

P.S. Twilight Sucks