One night, Dalton accidentally crashes his car into a vehicle containing humans.  He decides to protect them from the police and let them run off.   Soon, one of the humans tracks him down to his home and says she needs his help in developing a cure to turn vampires back into humans because her leader has transformed back into a human from vampire.  Dalton’s boss wants to maintain the status quo even when a blood substitute is found and he doesn’t care for the cure to vampirism.   Soon, Dalton must chose between the world of humanity and the world of vampires.

DAYBREAKERS is the type of film I haven’t made my mind up about.  The Spierig Brothers have created a very dark world where vampires live and looks too much like today’s world.   It has an excellent set-up for an interesting film world which I wished the filmmakers would have explored more.  The film is all about pushing the plot forward despite the film’s small attempts at character development like Dalton’s boss finally catching up with his daughter who has been on the run (she didn’t want to be a vampire and thinks daddy is a monster).  The finale is like putting a zombie film in the middle of a vampire film.   DAYBREAKERS doesn’t have much of a story.  It’s like a skeleton story that could have been fleshed out more and had a more satisfying conclusion (or better set-up for a sequel).  Instead, the film is just interesting to look like with plenty of gore for gore fiends and this film may delight horror fans (despite the cheap jumps used by a vampire bat flashing across the screen as the first and last image of the film).

This movie review is (c)1-9-2010 David Blackwell (revised on 1-12-2010) and cannot be reprinted without permission.   No vampires or humans were harmed during or after the writing of this review.  Send all comments to lord_pragmagtic@hotmail.com