Day 14: Daybreakers
On paper, Daybreakers sounds like a great idea. Ten years after the vampire plague took the world, vampires have nearly diminished their supplies of blood. They’re furiously working to create a synthetic blood substitute (TruBlood?), but the supplies of humans and pigs are dwindling. And when vampires go hungry, they go feral, and become a danger to themselves and others. Other than this little problem, vampires are living the good life. Their cars are designed so they can drive in the daylight using video screens, they don’t reflect in mirrors, but there are video screens for that, too. Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a hematologist who is looking for a cure. He was an unwilling convert to vampirism, and he refuses to harm humans. He’s also starving. He finds some sympathetic humans, and wackiness ensues.
The vampire world is shot in shades of green which contrasts with the vampires gold eyes and anything red. It also contrasts with the sunlit daytimes scenes. The world that has been established, with billboards and vampire news and a coffee bar which at first serves 20% blood! Then 5% blood! And then is closed is excellent.
But the execution is but merely mediocre. Ed tells his brother that someday there will be no humans left, and the brother scoffs and says “there’ll always be more humans!” It was a parable of oil (or something), but the message felt heavy handed and clumsy. The final fight was pretty cool, but I wasn’t invested enough to get too worked up about it.
The movie was decent. The concept is neat, I would be interested in reading or watching something else set in that when. I call Daybreakers “just okay”.
The vampire world is shot in shades of green which contrasts with the vampires gold eyes and anything red. It also contrasts with the sunlit daytimes scenes. The world that has been established, with billboards and vampire news and a coffee bar which at first serves 20% blood! Then 5% blood! And then is closed is excellent.
But the execution is but merely mediocre. Ed tells his brother that someday there will be no humans left, and the brother scoffs and says “there’ll always be more humans!” It was a parable of oil (or something), but the message felt heavy handed and clumsy. The final fight was pretty cool, but I wasn’t invested enough to get too worked up about it.
The movie was decent. The concept is neat, I would be interested in reading or watching something else set in that when. I call Daybreakers “just okay”.