Review of Daybreakers (2010) by Mike C — 23 Jun 2011

My rating: 3 out of 5 stars. Set in a near future where Vampirism spread out of control and infected 95% of the worldâ(TM)s population, Daybreakers is the story of a vampire scientist, Ethan Hawke, who is trying to create a blood substitute that the vampires can live on, as human supply has nearly been exhausted.

The majority of the remaining living humans are tapped for their blood in industrial harvesting farms, similar to how that is depicted in Blade Trinity. Instead of finding a viable substitute, he discovers that there can be a cure for vampirism, restoring the vampire back to their old human self.

He has to team up with some humans, including the former vampire Willem Dafoe, who is the source of the cure, to try to get the word of the cure out before the humans are captured and harvested. It is an interesting concept for a film, one that sat on the shelf in development hades for a few years (the movie was filmed in 2007 but not released until 2010) and it makes for an interesting, albeit average, film.

Some of the gore scenes are cool though, including what happens to a poor test subject for the synthetic blood Hawke is trying to create that unfortunately doesnâ(TM)t work very well. Itâ(TM)s worth seeing if you like vampire movies, but otherwise take a pass, because itâ(TM)s only an average film.