Daybreakers

Daybreakers Review

Daybreakers Overview

Two-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, when an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

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While Daybreakers presents vampiric traits that distinguish its vampires from others in the many films that have ridden 2009's vampire movie wave, there is a lack of humor here that makes this film sour compared to sweeter ones like Cirque du Freak: A Vampire's Assistant. Maybe that's because the plot in this horror feature from Peter and Michael Spierig (Undead) is more akin to zombie films like 28 Days Later. The year is 2019, and nearly all humans are converted vampires searching in vain for blood during a blood shortage, as they drain remaining humans into extinction. Nightly, CNN airs segments about the Blood Crisis, while vampire citizens around the globe attack each other like cannibals. Humans are farmed like cattle while tied to blood-draining machinery in the top-secret pharmaceutical corporation run by evil CEO Charles Bromley (Sam Neill). Sound like a heavy-handed metaphor for our oil wars? Daybreakers can definitely be viewed in that light, as a story about greed and consumption. Stylistically, it looks like a cross between Alien and Batman, with its Giger-esque set design and blue-tinted hue to represent night fallen on society. The lead actors help to salvage this movie. Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), chief hematologist at Bromley, straddles the vampire and human worlds, with the aid of humans Lionel "Elvis" Cormac (Willem Dafoe) and Lisa Barrett (Harriet Minto-Day), to search for a blood replacement to placate the starving masses. These three protagonists carry the film, though not well enough to call Daybreakers any sort of genre breakthrough. --Trinie Dalton

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Daybreakers - The new vampire movie

The year 2010 has just begun the first vampire movie already landed on the screens. Twisted, bloody and socially engaged, "Daybreakers" seems to bite the competition. barbara entertainment, at times, but still attractive.

In the near future, vampires rule the earth, and raised the people like cows to drink their blood. If the reserves are being depleted, the test should be based on the survivors of the old dominant race are carried out. Despite his Top Rank, Edward (Ethan Hawke)sympathizes with the refugees, but regrets that his heart is not yet lost. Through a series of events, he ends up supporting the alliance with minority human Elvis (Willem Dafoe), the round would be to find an antidote to all the vampires in normal individuals.

A film like "Daybreak" is savored in different ways. Those who thrill to have seen, "Avatar" Dozens of times to find a similar story, but fun, rhythmic, their lack of originality of the premise is offset byspectacular scenes of blood and other more deadly. As already worrying about their past and "not dead", the Australian duo of Directors, consisting of brothers Michael and Peter Spierig fact, there is the heart of joy, tearing off arms and heads, giving them the staging Gothic atmosphere, ask their readers (which includes Sam Neill in the dark ugly) of delirium without too seriously.

The directors are not only the content, offer a simple guilty pleasure. They sweeten the pill,grounded in social reality, a bit 'as George A. Romero to a different time. It 's so easy to replace the blood with oil or water. From the beginning, the sound of homeless people who have literally started to die of thirst. The fact that mankind is driven by vampires or humans, the result remains the same: man is a fool who spends his time trying to kill his fellow man. Some sequences recall some of the more introspective historical massacres of the last millennium. In the presence of Ethan Hawke (who spends histime to smoke, like old movies black Americans), it is also hard to forget the brilliant "Gattaca by Andrew Niccol. The search for normality at any time in a society that tolerates no difference.

"Daybreakers" would obviously be profound moments and detonate unnecessary simplification issues (such as the latest success without notice). These disadvantages are low, but what would be yet another blockbuster show is devoid of meaning that exists only for the kingDollars. Instead, it provides a less formal entertainment, including hemoglobin is paid offset by a certain moral depth. To reach the female audience, known as the vampire hero Edward, as in a "Twilight"!

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Daybreakers (2010) Movie Review - A Vampire Thriller Film

Well now I can breathe a sigh of relief. There are people out there in the world of film who still understand the concept of vampires and know how to create an original yet also incredibly entertaining genre movie that STAYS TRUE TO THE CONCEPT they're working with. I can't even begin to describe how satisfying it was to see the sun come up and a vampire burn alive because of it, and that was just in the first 5 minutes. If the character had sparkled I would have walked out of the theater, and there's something to be said for respecting decades worth of your peer's work. Sure every author creates their own interpretation of the vampire myth, and even though people like Anne Rice get a lot of credit for the state of vampire legend prior to Twilight (I'd like to give a shout out to whoever coined the phrase Twi-hards, by the way), a new rash of films and television shows have recently started to bend the rules of the long dormant cultural icons.

Combining the vampire aesthetic with a 28 Days Later inspired outbreak backstory, the Spierig Brothers (whose first feature Undead was hailed as a promise of greater things to come) have brought us a vision of the future of the vampire phenomenon, the logical continuation of a concept in which the whole world becomes infected, the humans are in the minority (considering they are capable of dying from natural causes) and are being farmed for blood. The only problem is that the blood supply is running out, and Ethan Hawke is a scientist in search of an acceptable substitute. What happens next, is one hell of a wild ride, and if there's anything general that can be said about the film as a whole, it's that it occasionally spends too much time having fun, and too little time developing the story.

Where the film truly shines is in its visual style. Sprinkle in a blue tinged color palette for the night photography t reminiscent of Underworld, add Willem Dafoe to breathe life into the human resistance and deliver all kinds of terrific one-liners, and top it all off with some gnarly creature effects and more blood splattering kills than the average war film, and now you're starting to get the sense of what kinds of notes Daybreakers manages to hit. It also has one of the more promising opening acts of the last few years, deftly establishing its tone and goals while simultaneously putting the audience on edge with a series of calculated scares and intense cinematography. It does unravel a bit after that, but the set up is everything you'd hope from this kind of movie.

Which brings us to the Achilles heel of the film, the editing. Aside from the opening act which is so full of exposition it would be hard for a studio to chop stuff out without losing important story components and is therefore the film's strongest portion, the rest of the movie suffers from its clearly targeted 90 minute runtime. Some films need an extra half an hour to breath and linger, and Daybreakers aches from a lack of room to do so. Character jumps are more severe than they seem intended to be, and the whole last act goes by at a blistering pace, making leaps in logic and flashing forward in its own chronology to the point that the audience is left questioning what they just missed. The final confrontation is sorely lacking in set-up, not because there wasn't any that got shot, but because I can see the studio note floating in the middle of the screen "Get To The End Faster." I'd be very interested in seeing the work in its entirety, and not unlike Kurt Wimmer's recent stylized vampire flick Ultraviolet, there may be a certain amount of the producers and the studio not really getting what it is they have, trying to force the film into a mold that really doesn't apply.

What I want you to take away from this review is that Daybreakers is a ton of fun. It's a blast, exactly the kind of entertainment you need in the studio "dump months" of January and February, and though it won't stay with you very long after you see it, the experience is entirely enjoyable, something the depressed Oscar season tends to forget about. Grab some popcorn, take a seat, and strap yourself in. If I had to pick Six Flags or Daybreakers, the vampires would get my vote in this round... though I'm so down to get on a roller coaster to avoid Twilight The Third in June.

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