Daybreakers
Just got back from seeing the new film Daybreakers with Ethan Hawke and Wilem Dafoe. As vampire films go, it was better than all the nicey-nice vampires we’ve been seeing lately. I mean, come on. Vampires… Evil… Kill people. Generally, they have no soul. Right? All this Twilight stuff has me rolling my eyes.
Wouldn’t say Daybreakers is a great film, but it’s entertaining enough, if you like scary, gory stuff. There are a couple of good boos in it.
What’s It About?
The premise is that most of the world is vampires in 2014, and the human blood supply (which a corporation run by Sam Neill has been harvesting) is almost gone. The human race is becoming extinct.
The vampires are trying to come up with a substitute blood for human blood because when they don’t get any for a while, their ears start looking like Mr. Spock’s, their hair gets rattier than Alice Cooper’s, and they get realllly ugly.
Ethan Hawke, as the head hematologist for Sam Neill’s corporation, is trying desperately to come up with this alternative blood, but nothing is working and well… I’ll let you see the film.
Gets like a 3 out of a possible 5 star rating from me.
No Words to Hang On
But then, I’m tough. I really don’t like most mundane films. I live for great dialogue, no matter what the topic of the film is, but I have to say… Daybreakers totally doesn’t cut it in that department.
I mean, come on… Angel was a vampire. Good dialogue and lots of lines you could guffaw at. Plus, David Boreanz wasn’t hard to look at, right? And there’s Supernatural. Lots of ugly monster-types, and even Lucifer has a sense of humor.
Nobody has a sense of humor in this film, and for me, that makes it flat. Not even one clever line. No cleverness? Doctor Who would be mortified.
The acting is OK.
The action is OK.
The blood and gore is outrageous. But um… Vampires.
I’d wait until it’s on DVD and you don’t have anything to do on a Friday night. <Yawn>
However, they do use Placebo doing “Running Up That Hill” for their trailer, and I have to give them 5 points for that.
