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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Daybreakers.

I'm among those who think that there isn't something cooler as a vampire (although I don't care about Twilight, too old for this shit ;) ). Throw vampires somewhere and at least you got me listening. There's something interesting in the concept and it has given over time an awful lot of great movies.
The great thing about a "vampire movie" is that it could be anything. Action romp, straight horror, western, even a teenage romantic thing...

Knowing that the Spierig brothers, coming from the low budget gore (they did Undead which I heard was a lot of fun), had the gig for Daybreakers was another point of interest.
Unfortunately, this one doesn't quite know what it is either. Tempted by a serious line but also by action and gore, it made me wonder what I was supposed to make of it at points. Maybe it was just that the story was quite predictable.

However, on the plus side, it's wonderfully shot, with 1st class actors (Ethan Hawke, Sam Neil & Willem Dafoe, no less!) who do their thing just right.
Also the story might be predictable, it still brings some memorable scenes and images. And lets not forget to bring the vampires on the "winning" side also brings something fresh to the table. And strangely they waste their resources just like us! It brings up another dimension of the myth: they may be immortal, they're still not immune to decay...

Overall though I missed that little spark that makes a movie more than the sum of its parts (liek it did for me with Equilibrium, which I think is similar in quality, only with that spark). As I said at the beginning, I think it's a tone problem. Bottomline though: I didn't connect with it. I could think through it.

So not another definitive vampire movie, a sort of B+ series that is well crafted and nice to watch and that I will certainly keep in my good book.

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