So, a mid-week film review, I don’t do these often, but being associated with someone on Orange provides certain bonuses on Wednesday, so mid-week it is. The film this time round is Daybreakers.
The film is a vampire flick with a twist. Edging more towards thriller than horror, Daybreakers offers us a world where vampires are in the majority and humans are farmed for their blood. The problem is, with a shrinking human population blood is running out. This, rather understandably, is having a negative impact on the vampires, and a company is working on synthesising a blood substitute. Enter Ethan Hawke, or Edward Dalton if you want to stay in the movie world, who is a scientist, rather fond of humans, trying to get this substitute working.
Hawke plays a scientist at a leading company, doesn’t quite belong where he is, and has a problem that leads to him lying low a little. It’s not the first time he’s played this role (Gattaca anyone?), and it isn’t his best. The dialogue is fairly flat and the plot fairly formulaic. There’s nothing game changing here, but as a chase thriller, it works.
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