Movie number 14 : Daybreakers

I woke up the snow is falling, the weather is cold, and the sun has not set yet. It is all quiet and dark I feel like I was in "30 days of Night" ! Which link us to the next movie of the list "Daybreakers". The first Vampire movie of the year and luckily Ethan Hawkes is in.

For the ones who does not know him, he was the shy boy in "Dead Poet's society", Jesse in "Before Sunrise" or Vincent in "Gattaca"... I am sure everyone who seen "DPS" will remember the monologue of Todd Anderson staring at Walt Whitman picture ( Truth. Truth, is like. like a blanket who leaves your feet cold. You push it, Stretch it, it'll never enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream). One of my favourite line.

In this movie, Ethan plays an Hematologist who tries to find a substitute to human blood, under the control of Sam Neil (Jurrassik Park). To help him out, he is joint by Willem Dafoe ( Spiderman / The English Patient) and Claudia Karvan ( Star Wars III) .... The cast is let say good, after all they all proved their capacities of acting. The directors , the brothers Spierig, which it is only their second movie together ( first one "Undead").

When I sat on the red armchair, my hopes are in Hawkes and Dafoe ...

The light are dimming, and the movie starts .... Hummmm ......

After 1h40min movie, I am in one word : Disappointed.

Yes, the script is original: the planet is filled with Vampires, the humans are farmed for their blood ( as we do with animals). The blood reserves start being low and Ethan is looking for a substitute. So far, it is interesting. But the story starts being confusing when Willem and Ethan meet.... From one day to another no more blood, the vampires transformed into strange creature, and even if they found a "cure" it leave a bitter taste in the mouth. It seems that the Spierig brothers got tired of writing and they just finished their movie a bit fast with no real conclusion or anything for their audience to thing. No psychological opening, no wondering, nothing,just "the end".

On the good side, the effect are good, Ethan Hawkes acts - at the end of the day it is job- Sam Neil as the bad guy is devilishly brilliant, The creatures are well designed and up to the middle of the movie I was really into it ... after I started yawning !

I was impatiently waiting for this movie, as the first of the Vampire wave which apparently will dominate our screen this year, but to be honest it does not start well. And I hope that the next ones will be better.

Direct from Humanland ... Ephy !