Elvis-Virtus

I was able to get hold of a early BlueRay copy of this movie and just finished watching it an hour ago. I was thinking of watching this movie when it hit the movie house a month ago but due to its genre and theme, i decided to skip it to save money and just rent it when it comes out, Vampire theme movies tends to suck (not blood lol!) suck in terms of storyline, dialogue; in other words, the movies are just plain bad. Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke (Gattaca, Training Day) Willem Dafoe ( Spiderman, Shadow of the Vampire) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Merlin).

I was expecting the movie to be very bad like the twilight franchise, but this movie really surprised me. Its a rather new concept, the movie shows the world in the year 2019 are being run by Vampires, in the brief explanation of the movie, Vampirisim is a plague that affected 95% of the population of the world and turning them to vampire. Its astonishing a society being ran by vampires, i really like the concept of the movie showing the world built for a vampire society like underground tunnels, UV proof cars, blood mixed cocktails and a human blood farming center. In the story, the problem was that the vampire society is running low of blood to supply the rest of the population and because of the dwindling numbers of humans, an alternative source must be found. This is where Ethan's character kicks in, being head of the program that is responsible in finding the alternative source, he is put in dilemma when he found out that the company(largest human blood farming center) he is working for won't stop farming humans even after an alternative source is found because of profits. Being an Vampire who doesn't drink human blood anymore, he decided to join the human resistance and hoping in stopping the vampire tyranny and also at the same time find a cure to the vampire disease. This plot is where the movie plays around, and a lot of twists and surprises made the movie an enjoyable experience.

The downside of the movie is that the action was so so, and didn't utilize their actor's star power and skills that much; might be because of the shallow thinking character they played. I also didn't like the ending that much because i felt it was somewhat unfinished. The action were so-so. And they didn't show Isabel Lucas that much, bummer.

Overall, This is a enjoyable movie truly worth your time, and a fresh taste from the vampire genre.

PROS: Ensemble Cast, Interesting Storyline, New Concept to the vampire genre

CONS: Didn't utilize the actors that much, some questionable scenes, somewhat an unfinished ending, Actions were so-so, Didn't show Isabel Lucas that much



RATING:out of 5 stars

EIJAN SAYS: if you have the time or a fan of the vampire genre, SEE IT

That's all for now

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