As a movie: eh.

But I can't shake the feeling that the brothers who wrote and directed this were comic fans. They created a rich universe that I would have loved to see explored in a monthly title. Imagine Gatica crossed with True Blood, in which the majority of the population have been turned into vampires and ceased to be cool bad-asses and get trapped in the same sort of boring, corporate life that they had before... only the blood is running out and they risk devolving into ferral bat-creatures if they don't develop a blood substitute.

Then add in the plucky humans being hunted down by a Vampire Army, politicians fighting for human rights, and the whispers of a possible cure.

Then condense all that into an hour and a half and make it about fight scenes... then you have this movie. A shame, there's something really cool here.

Sounds like it will be a great DVD but I'm not excited enough to get off the couch and go to a theater. Maybe because their is just too many vampire movies these days. Is there another Blade movie coming out soon?

I never thought I'd see the day when my buddy John would say there are too many vampire movies.

Saw this.

Steaming. Pile. Of. Shit.

The DVD and Blu-ray are now available for pre-ordering:

DVD

Description
Two-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, when an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

Special Features

• Making Of Daybreakers [Edited Version]
• Commentary With Co-Directors Peter And Michael Spierig And Creature Designer Steve Boyle
• Trailer
• Poster Art Gallery

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZG97CO/?tag=imwan-20

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Blu-ray

Description
Two-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, when an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZG97D8/?tag=imwan-20

It would make a pretty good TV series. Steven Clubb's review is dead on.

I'll check this out at some point. Haven't seen it in the video stores. Is it on netflix? What the hell, why am I asking you guys? *goes to check*

Twitchy is correct.

Watching it tonight. Starts off pretty good and then begins to fail after Dafoe shows up and the cure is exposure to ? what?
Too bad, it was a great idea and the movie looks and sounds great.

btw....the female lead Claudia Karvan is hot!