I love this movie so much

Nice effects though.

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Daybreakers has a very interesting premise that comes off half-baked. Everything seems slapped together and rushed. This movie should have embraced the horror/sci-fi aspect more - it's too political for its own good. It was entertaining, but it could have been much, much better.

An original vampire flick? Impossible! Yet, the Spierig brothers managed to flip a typical clichéd vampire story on its head to create something as fresh as human blood. That doesn't prevent the overall production from feeling inexpensive, but it maintains your attention throughout. A vampire hematologist is tasked with researching for a blood substitute as the remaining human population dwindles, meaning vampires will have no blood left. Just the originality alone is enough to quench our bloodythirstiness, considering it was released during a period of genre saturation (no thanks to 'Twilight'). The Spierig brothers fortunately managed to perpetuate a sense of intellectual world building, particularly in the first act. Immediately, this dark futuristic world is thoroughly explored, from the degenerative "subsiders" to the laboratory farms that harvest humans. Retaining dark gothic aesthetics without requiring towering spires and grand cathedrals. The story, whilst executed basically, illustrates the desperation that the vampire race is facing. Humanity faces extinction and the chic vampires face degenerating into psychotic bat creatures. There was just enough meat in the plot to keep me invested. Hawke is consistently decent as always, same can be said about Dafoe, both giving convincing and moody performances. Neill was perfect casting as the corporate antagonist, exhuming a menacingly calm demeanour. The visual effects however, were B-grade at best. So horrendously cheap looking that the production value deteriorated instantly and, on multiple occasions, took me out of the film. Laughably poor. The final act loses its intellectual plot and succumbs to mindless action with blood gushing everywhere. Whilst I appreciate the practical effects during these sequences, it just lets the overall narrative down. All that build up with minimal payoff, ultimately leaving a metallic aftertaste. For what it is worth though, the innovative premise, world building and performances converted me.

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.