Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Davis P Daybreakers (2009) is an above average vampire film. It's set in the future, which now is less than a year away lol, in 2019. 95% of the population has become vampires, and what's remaining of the human population must hide out or be captured and farmed for blood. But the vampires are facing a big problem: they're running out of human blood and are scrambling to come up some sort of substitute. Ethan Hawke's character is in charge of this at a blood supply corporation headed up by Sam Neil. Their attempts to try to come up with a viable substitute keep on failing until eventually they're faced with vampires who are turning into horrific creatures due to a lack of blood. The film really gets going when Ethan Hawke joins this group of humans. I'm not giving away spoilers so I elaborate on what happens when he teams up with them. I enjoyed this film for the most part, it features talented actors who deliver good performances, nice visuals, and the pacing is well done. It's not perfect, but it is entertaining and well done. 8/10.

Andy Van Scoyoc This movie is amazing in one aspect...the way the vampires live, at night, the way the rest of us do in the daylight.During the day, the world is barren and empty. It looks as if everyone just disappeared.At night though, it's busy. There's jobs, bills to pay, cars have been altered in case of the need for daytime driving, news anchors, senators, police...everyone , every person, is a vampire...with only a handful of survivng humans...and any that are captured, are "farmed" for their blood.But...like any group or majority in power, there's always going to be someone who feels sorry for the minority/underdog...and in this movie, the humans couldn't have gotten a better ally in the form of Ed, a Hematologist with a heart who is tasked with finding a way to synthesize a blood substitute against the ever dwindling human population.With no blood, when humans are finally extinct...so are vampires...or worse yet, turn into these pitiful, grotesque creatures that, in popular fiction, have always been the base animal of what is, a vampire. Savage, feeding on their own bodies, they are powerful and insane...a bad combination for the vampires who consider them a disgusting sub species. The ending was lack luster and a let down, but the rest of the movie makes up for the disappointing finish.Definitely worth a watch.

dworldeater Daybreakers is one of my favorite modern horror films that is very original and very well done overall. The premise of the film is very fresh and unique, putting this in the near future where the human race is nearly extinct and what was once human society is now populated by vampires. The vamps have nearly exhausted their means of farming human beings for blood and do not have the means to sustain themselves for much longer. Now because of the lack of human blood, vampires have a new epidemic that started when they started to feed on one another. This has caused them to de evolve into bat like creatures known as subsiders. Research scientists try to find a blood substitute to sustain the vampire population and what remains of the human race desperately try to stay below the radar to survive. Daybreakers is an excellent blend of horror, science fiction and action and delivers with an abundance of gore, blood and action. The film looks great and has a noir like look and feel to the film. The f/x are great and rely mostly on practical f/x, but when digital f/x are used, it is pretty tasteful, but minimal in this production. The film is very well written, directed and acted and attracted the talents of excellent A list actors like Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neil. Daybreakers is a cerebral film and blends social commentary in a horror/sci fi context in a very creative and entertaining manner. The Sperig Brothers absolutely pulled off making a very ambitious and original horror film that too me is a kind of mix between Soylent Green, Blade and Dawn Of The Dead. I absolutely love and highly recommend this film and Daybreakers has become one of my favorites.

Lundgrenja I've returned to this movie once after it's initial release and I'd imagine that I'll find myself doing that more and more even though I don't rate it all that high. The reason for that is the movies incredibly strong core concept that puts a fascinating twist on a vampire dystopian mythos. In Daybreakers vampires rule the earth and they are scavenging for the last humans in order to feed and survive. The story is told from the perspective of a vampire scientist working on a blood substitute but as the story unfolds it is clear that he's sympathetic to the human cause, which puts him in a minority amongst other vampires. Soon the vampiric society starts falling apart as the blood dries up and starving vamps go insane due to their hunger and turn into beings ruled by instinct rather than reason.What makes Daybreakers a movie worth returning to are these ideas of a vampire society on the brink of toppling itself due to it's own greed and hunger rather than the vampires being a mythological minority. This makes for an interesting twist on classical human tropes of greed, justice and morality. Unfortunately, and this is what ultimately holds the movie back from being great, the writers never seized this potential and instead this is a run of the mill action movie that chooses to use cheap plot points for thrills and effects rather than the larger themes for afterthought and world building.In a perfect world this movie would be slower paced and forty minutes longer where the plot isn't about Ethan Hawkes character Edward Dalton trying to find a cure and later survive, instead it's about Dalton slowly realizing his disgust with the way of the vampiric society as it's dark side becomes clearer and clearer as the blood starts to drain up. Willing human donors are quickly replaced by forced human donors and individual cases of blood charity becomes an industrialized farming. I want to see more of how the greed and desperation is a driving force and how that drives Dalton into exile and from trying to feed vampires through other means into seeing their greed as a road block that can not be solved without viewing vampirism as a decease. I'm rambling now but lost potential will do that sometimes. I recommend this movie strongly to anyone that is looking for one of the good vampire movies that are out there and especially to anyone that is able to see the greatness that this could have been.