Daybreakers

I just thought i'd post a very brief review of a movie i saw the other day: Daybreakers.

Ethan Hawke

Daybreakers is one of many vampire movies/series currently riding on the success of the Twilight Saga. Its twist is that its future setting of 2019 is a world where nearly all humans have 'turned' (into vampires). Very few humans remain, and those that do are hunted and then farmed for blood. The story centers around a hematologist and human-sympathiser (Ethan Hawke), faced with the task of finding a blood substitute before all human blood runs out.

Isabel Lucas

This movie doesn't really do anything new for the vampire genre. I found it boring at times, and some scenes seemed cringingly cliché. Isabel Lucas, of Home and Away fame, was quite likable, but for all the fuss that was made about her character she really didn't 'last' long. There were, however, some high points to this film; There was a daytime car chase where a vampire's blackout windows are shot, and he must dodge the angled beam of light pouring in the bullet hole; and the twist at the end of the movie is ingenious. That the journey to these points was not worth it caused the film to fall, in my opinion.


Daybreakers
3/5