Daybreakers

This is a movie review for the movie Daybreakers starring Ethan Hawke(Training Day), Willem Dafoe(Spider-Man, Antichrist, Fantastic Mr. Fox), Sam Neil(Jurassic Park, Event Horizon), and Claudia Karvan.

If you have seen the trailer then you should probably understand that this is yet another vampire movie amongst the countless vampire movies or TV shows in this very vampire trendy period of time. The idea for this movie is that vampires are the norm and humans are becoming an endangered species. A blood corporation headed by Charles Bromley(Sam Neil) starts monopolizing blood because humans are hard to find and the supply of blood that they have is getting slimmer and slimmer. He calls upon Edward Dalton(Ethan Hawke), who is pretty much his chief scientist, to construct a blood substitute, so he can sell the blood substitute at a cheap price and the human blood at a premium price. Edward Dalton has an abundance of trouble of trying to construct this substitute. A car accident with Audrey Bennett(Claudia Karvan), a human, changes his life forever. Realizing that he saved her life and, that he's a scientist, she thinks that he can be trusted then introduces him to Lionel "Elvis" Cormac(Willem Dafoe) who is sort of the leader of a pack of humans that has to hide. What Elvis tells Edward is that they have found a way to become human again. Edward helps the humans find a way to harness this cure and this is where all the fun begins(a figure of speech).

This movie tremendously falls apart with trying to do too much. I loved how the Spierig brothers depicted how life would be if vampires ruled the world from coffee with blood, video mirrors, cars with cameras and sun blocking windows for day time driving, and how Edward Dalton smoked all the time because he couldn't die; not to mention, human blood served in wine bottles. The idea got lost in the midst of ridiculous gore and the fact that it couldn't make up it's mind of what type of movie it wanted to be. Every time they would have a good idea going they would ruin it with trying to scare you or they would ruin it with having a ridiculously gory event happen. At first it was tolerable, it soon became tiresome and annoying. I will give the movie a lot of credit though because with all these vampire movies and TV shows out there, the movie had a pretty original and smart thought. The movie is sort of a good time, but the bad parts of this movie, for me, just could not be ignored.

I give this movie a 47/100.