Daybreakers is a sporadicly entertaining, gore filled vamp action romp set in a world where almost all humans are vampires. Humans are endangered and blood is running out fast. We follow Ethan Hawke's Edward, a vamp Haematologist charged with finding a blood substitute. The story just cries out for a quality film and the ideas the Spierig Brothers address have a lot of scope...It's packed full of vamp lore and great concept ideas for vamps living in a world with a sun, the cars, the streets, the coffee shops - it's a great little world they have created... but something just doesn't work. Perhaps it's the lack of character development which first detracts from the film, or maybe the set-up-for-a-sequel…

How this has gotten 'mixed to positive' reviews and a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes amazes me. The only single thing that the film has got going for it is the concept, which does admittedly offer a fresh story for vampire fiction. It's 2019 in the US and nearly the whole population has been converted into vampires. But with very few humans left, where are the vampire overlords going to find blood to drink once the humans have completely died out? That's up to 'Edward' (a dull Ethan Hawke), a scientist who works for a US blood supplier, to find out.

But even with a new concept which hasn't been done before, fine execution is still needed, and the Spierig…

Reading some other reviews it seems that I might be part of a minority here but I thought this was really quite good.

After a worrying opening few minutes I thought I might be in for another terrible vampire film but once someone’s head exploded I was reassured that it might not be so bad. The best thing about Daybreakers is its overall concept and the believable world it creates. Having an original plot in a vampire movie is nigh-on unheard of but I believe it’s been pulled off here. There was clearly a lot of thought gone into how vampires could live in today’s society - so I really appreciated all of the little touches like the modified cars,…

Daybreakers suffers from a plethora of things that had they been fixed/done differently it could have actually been a very good film but as it is it feels incomplete and shoddy, but most importantly bland. Most of the time I was simply bored by it and I kept asking myself what idiots made some of these "artistic" decisions.

I might aswell begin with what bugged me the most, the overuse of CGI. Let's face it, CGI blood almost always looks cheap and sticks out like a sore thumb. Movies like this, especially vampire flicks, thrive off prosthetics and fake blood and I can't stress enough how important it is for violence and creatures to be organic. They need to look…

Daybreakers is a sporadicly entertaining, gore filled vamp action romp set in a world where almost all humans are vampires. Humans are endangered and blood is running out fast. We follow Ethan Hawke's Edward, a vamp Haematologist charged with finding a blood substitute. The story just cries out for a quality film and the ideas the Spierig Brothers address have a lot of scope...It's packed full of vamp lore and great concept ideas for vamps living in a world with a sun, the cars, the streets, the coffee shops - it's a great little world they have created... but something just doesn't work. Perhaps it's the lack of character development which first detracts from the film, or maybe the set-up-for-a-sequel…

Daybreakers offers an original, interesting, and fully-realized near future where vampires rule the planet and are quickly running out of humans to feed on. The world created here is like none I can recall seeing before. It's the anti-Twilight, and THANK GOD for that! THIS is what a vampire movie should be - brutal, bloody, and unrelenting; but without being just mindless gore. The vampires here aren't romantic figures, they're not primal, and they don't look like goth kids who shop too much at Hot Topic. They're just the same normal people as us.... but vampires. It's a horror film with a real story to it and with great characters. There's not a weak link in the cast (and it's…

My first time seeing this since it first came out, this film felt more like a neo-noir science fiction film, than a horror film. It doesn't seem like most vampire films out there, it's quite different than the usual run of the mill vamp flick.

Set in a futuristic world where the human population is near extinction as the blood supply runs low, Vampires are in dire need of a synthetic solution. Edward (Ethan Hawke) is a scientist looking for a solution, but upon stumbling a group of survivors, there may be something more important than a synthetic solution, a cure.

It has a good cast in Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe and a very interesting concept about the human…