The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The acting in this movie is really good.

Daybreakers: Written and directed by the Spierig BrothersThis is a movie about a world where vampires have taken over the planet and the food source is dwindling. This is a movie where world building is the core of the plot. It spends a lot of time showing what the world would be like in the day to day and the changes in societal situations as well. It introduces a conflicted protagionist looking for a solution to the problems facing their world. Bit by bit, what he thinks he knows about the way things work is not entirely true. His world is shattered until you're left with the difficult choices you have to make in order to make things succeed.I know that sounds like a sappy indie mumblecore style drama but it's not. It's in a movie where vampires have eaten everything they can and are now running out of food. When they run out of food, they turn into a bat person, a literal man-bat who lives on the blood of whatever they find. There's so much introduction that when you finally find out, there's almost no story left. It's that simplistic. It works. It's different especially living in the age post Twilight. I enjoyed the film for what it brought to the table. I wanted more. I wanted a more in depth look at a world starving. I wanted to spend more time in vampire land but it was not to be. You were here one minute and then the next minute people were being violently torn apart by starving crazed vampires.I give this movie a C.

Reviewed August 2010The movie starts with a little girl vampire committing suicide by exposing herself to sun cause she is unable to cope up being a vampire. The story is set in 2017 when most of the world's population are turned to vampires (who are still functional in all professions in the society) and a huge pharmaceutical company trying to create an alternative for the increasing demand for blood simultaneously harvesting humans for the current supply. There are 100 reasons why it should have worked and only one why it didn't. Treatment. It has lots of thrills and gore for a horror, decently thought out science fiction, an interesting premise for a vampire genre and a plot line though a bit generic had potential. The narrative introduces and sets itself well and most performances are apt. But by the end, it becomes a second rate thriller and Willem Dafoe acts like a third rate sidekick. The production values complying to sets, costumes, cast and the world itself is decent but the visual effects could have been lot better. Anyone interested in the genre may not be too disappointed since we all know how the mainstream vampires of recent times sucked. The makers wanted to make a good movie but falters by trying to induce too much morality and also tries hard to increase the scope of it's audience segments. Falls slightly short on both attempts.

but i really didn't like that this movie only has a 6.5 rating... so in order to factor in the 'vote'i've given it, i'll write this, too...it deserves more of a 6.8-7.0, really... it DOES seem to suffer in places for lack of budget...and it might've been a GREAT, underground sort of film with a less physical, more cerebral resolution...but great endings are what good writers get paid for...this was a good one. at least adequate to the task... but it was no follow through for an imaginative story/take. still...i think they did well with what they had. provided an atmosphere that, i think, was hard for some to 'dwell in'. contributing to its low rating. but that's part of the subtlety of the film's artistry. just as a good writer will make you feel uncomfortable, reading about a place with humidity in the 90 percentile, so did these filmmakers help me sense the 'stench'...the decay and desperation of the world they created... i'd like to see what these guys do with more money. it's been a while since this film...gotta look and see if they got another chance...

As I know this movie is a vampire horror film.I was very eager to see this film and it does not disappoint. It is well directed film by sperig brothers.believe me it keeps us edge of seat and a warning to those people who don't see horror movie much don't see if u are not strong to handle this because this movie contains eating of humans very badly and it is not horror it is bloody horror film.so u are eager for plot.the plot is that a plague comes where human gets a chance but they refuse and that world human become vampires and some humans only save but they want help of anyone vampire to save them and they got Ethan hawke as there help and then what it is full of horror.so i will not say full story. Go watch it is worth of money and ur time is not wasted as the purge anarchy does.