Review of Daybreakers (2010) by Brandonw — 14 Jan 2010

I don't see why so many people are complaining and giving this film a 1. If I ever gave a film a 1, it would have meant I got my money back after 30 minutes in...and I know these people on here did no such thing.

I felt like this was a decent vampire film that featured a lot of new concepts to the vampire mythos. I went into this film with the idea of it probably being a cross between blade runner and a john carpenter film.

..and guess what - that's EXACTLY what it's like. The only thing I wish they would have focused on was the origin of the vampire disease and how it spread so quickly. One reviewer on here pointed out that it is "ridiculous" to even suggest that in 10 years time our world could reach that point.

Really??? A decade is a long time...do you know how long it takes for people to catch the ebola virus? Pretty quickly upon contact...now imagine if the ebola was a walking, living thing (now THAT is scary!).

However, the film concentrates on one city in a world supposidly taken over by vampires...who knows how the rest of the world is in terms of human resistance. Anyways, to sum this film up - acting was okay overall - I would have loved to have seen more from the great Sam Niell, but they did a great death scene with him at the end.

Go into this movie without expectations, expect some nice concepts and you'll enjoy it. Cliche bats jumping out and such - only things I hated about the film.