Re: Daybreakers (Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill) Grading/Discuss
Saw this Friday and have to say I really liked it. They obviously had budetry limitations but made a surprisingly intelligent and well thought out film despite this, certatainly better than much of the better budgeted dross we usually have to put up with.
I liked the realisation of the future society, and while it could be argued the vampires were idiots for not realising they were going to run out of humans, well you could make the same argument about us and all sorts of things. So it could be a metaphor for oil, or food, water etc etc.
The plot didn't really match the great set up, and the film did dip in the middle, but I liked the eventual solution, and the fact that it didn't rely on some scientist making an improbable breakthrough, it was much more of a penecillin moment, and it made sense that 99.9% of vamps exposed to sunlight would die before they had a chance to be cured.
Have to say as well that the way the cure was passed on surprised me as well.
The only real fault I had with the film was the gore at the end. I'm not some puritan, I like gory films, but there was too much at the end and it was really out of place. Coming from a film that had given us the moving scene of the subsiders being hauled into the sunlight it jarred to have people torn apart ala Day of the Dead. It wasn't needed really.
