Daybreakers: Blu Ray Review
Daybreakers
Rating: R16
Released by Sony Home Pictures
This
latest entry into the vampire genre is set in 2019 and sees the world swept with
the vampire pandemic. With pretty much everyone overtaken by the desire and
necessity to consume blood, real stocks of the red stuff are in short supply.
Enter Ethan Hawke's Edward Dalton, a haematologist
working for Sam Neill's Charles Bromley. Bromley owns a human farm which is
keeping the vamp population in blood - but it's running low and Dalton's
desperately trying to find a substitute for human blood.
However, when Dalton literally runs into one of the last surviving
groups of humans, he finds out from Willem Dafoe's Elvis that there is a cure
for vampirism and one which could free them all from their misery.
Daybreakers is an intriguing entry into the vampire
genre with a solid central premise - the idea of vampirism being a condition
which is parasitic and debilitating was explored in the brilliant Let The Right
One In. So in terms of bringing something new to the table, Daybreakers doesn't
quite make it on that front - but what it does manage to do with its pale sharp
colours is create a Blade Runneresque world with a tinge of Nightwatch about it.
A minor misfire, Daybreakers has missed
opportunity written over it - and while the teen audience will love the gore
element of it, some will feel with a little more love, this could have been the
start of an intriguing new franchise.
Extras: Trailer, commentary, poster gallery -
nothing earth shattering
Rating:
5/10
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