Daybreakers: Blu Ray Review
Daybreakers
Rating: R16
Released by Sony Home Pictures
This latest entry into the vampire genre is set in 2019 and sees
the world swept with the vampire pandemic. With pretty much
everyone overtaken by the desire and necessity to consume blood,
real stocks of the red stuff are in short supply.
Enter Ethan Hawke's Edward Dalton, a haematologist working for Sam
Neill's Charles Bromley. Bromley owns a human farm which is keeping
the vamp population in blood - but it's running low and Dalton's
desperately trying to find a substitute for human blood.
However, when Dalton literally runs into one of the last surviving
groups of humans, he finds out from Willem Dafoe's Elvis that there
is a cure for vampirism and one which could free them all from
their misery.
Daybreakers is an intriguing entry into the vampire genre with a
solid central premise - the idea of vampirism being a condition
which is parasitic and debilitating was explored in the brilliant
Let The Right One In. So in terms of bringing something new to the
table, Daybreakers doesn't quite make it on that front - but what
it does manage to do with its pale sharp colours is create a Blade
Runneresque world with a tinge of Nightwatch about it.
A minor misfire, Daybreakers has missed opportunity written over it
- and while the teen audience will love the gore element of it,
some will feel with a little more love, this could have been the
start of an intriguing new franchise.
Extras: Trailer, commentary, poster gallery -
nothing earth shattering
Rating: 5/10
