Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Daybreakers

The Australian twins, Spierig Brothers, wrote and directed this stylish sci-fi thriller that boasts some great premises that fail to deliver. The story set in 2019 where most of Earth's population has turned into vampires and humans are an endangered speciesdesperately needed for their survival. The film starts well with a coherent visual flair that sets up a credible world but falls apart in the second act before the filmmakers becomedesperate to tie loose ends in the third. The vampires look and behave like humans except for the eyes and fangs, the usual supernatural skills of a vampire isabandoned or lost as are other interesting ideas that could have been developed more. Ethan Hawke, Sam Neil and Willem Dafoe raise the quality level of the film but are limited by the source material. YRCinema's coverage of current releases.

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