Daybreakers (2010)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Daybreakers is great vampire a lot of action good acting its is gory not bad ending this is good one

The idea behind the movie is genious. A bat-bourne plague that has turned nearly every human on the planet into vampires. The vampires struggle to survive due to limited amounts of human blood remaining. It's an amazing idea, and the new "vampire world" is beautifully crafted. Cars that are can drive the vampires around in the sunlight, coffee-shops that serves different bloodtypes down in the subway. Unfortunately for us the plot, struture, and visuals are lacking, and lowers the movie down to another generic splatter movie. I would recommend watching the movie just for the screenwriting. It's a cool world the screenwriters created, that had a lot of potensial. I would love to see a graphic novel adaption of the world we see in "daybreakers".

Set in a future in which close to 100% of the human population has been turned into vampires, the key theme of 'Daybreakers' is survival given an ever-dwindling blood supply due to the increasing scarcity of human beings. Ethan Hawke plays a haematologist employed to find a substitute source of sustenance for when the blood supply runs dry, however, he would much rather find a cure for vampirism itself. Also thrown into the mix are his boss, who would prefer not to have a cure, since the need for blood is good for business, and some renegade humans who believe that they have accidentally stumbled on a cure. Intriguing as all this might make 'Daybreakers' sound, it is a pretty uneven a ride with such a large focus on high octane action and gore that its thought-provoking ideas never feel properly explored. The lack of any explanation for the cause of the vampire disease also feels like a cop-out and while the film does eventually come up with two cures, neither solution is fleshed out in depth, which results in unanswered questions arising. The film boasts a lot of thought and consideration in other areas though. The black-out cars are nifty, there is a darkly comic moment when we learn that vampire animals wandering into daylight have resulted in an increase in forest fires (!) and there is a lot to like in the corporate greed agenda at the heart of the film.

but i really didn't like that this movie only has a 6.5 rating... so in order to factor in the 'vote'i've given it, i'll write this, too...it deserves more of a 6.8-7.0, really... it DOES seem to suffer in places for lack of budget...and it might've been a GREAT, underground sort of film with a less physical, more cerebral resolution...but great endings are what good writers get paid for...this was a good one. at least adequate to the task... but it was no follow through for an imaginative story/take. still...i think they did well with what they had. provided an atmosphere that, i think, was hard for some to 'dwell in'. contributing to its low rating. but that's part of the subtlety of the film's artistry. just as a good writer will make you feel uncomfortable, reading about a place with humidity in the 90 percentile, so did these filmmakers help me sense the 'stench'...the decay and desperation of the world they created... i'd like to see what these guys do with more money. it's been a while since this film...gotta look and see if they got another chance...