Daybreakers

This past weekend I watched Daybreakers. First off…much better than the last horrible movie I watched, but I do like Vampires :) Of course this movie was not as good as Blade, but I don’t think anything will be for quite some time.

The movie takes place in 2019, and the vampire virus has spread out from the underbelly of humanity and taken over the world like a plague, turning almost every human into the walking dead. But of course as the vampires’ numbers rise, the human population dwindles. The vampires have turned to capturing and harvesting humans in laboratory farms in hopes to survive until scientist can come up with a synthetic blood supplement that will satisfy the vampires’ craving.

But the scientists are not working fast enough and a sub-culture of vampires is starting to arise from starvation. These creatures are aggressive and bat like…looking more like the horror film version of the walking dead then the romantic Bram Stoker version. These creatures are violent and attack humans and vampires alike. The process in becoming one is slow and the police have managed (until now) to keep it at bay.

The main blood supplier in the US is a company called Bromley Marks and this is where Edward Dalton (played by Ethan Hawke) works as a hematologist. Edward tries desperately to find a synthetic blood, both to save the vampires from starvation, but also because he still feels sympathy for the humans that are being captured and farmed. Secretly he begins to refuse human blood, causing him to slowly begin to change.

Edward’s brother, Frankie, who is a human hunter comes to visit Edward on his birthday, and realizes that his brother is refusing human blood. In the mist of their argument, a sub-culture vampire appears in Edwards house and attacks them. This is when it becomes apparent that the police are no longer keeping this treat a bay and starvation is spreading among all social classes of vampires.

Edward meets and rescues a group of humans trying to escape and he becomes involved with them, experimenting and trying to find a way to cure the cursed. This is where the movie starts to stray a little and I begin to become less interested in it.

The movie is actually good and I did like it. I wouldn’t have recommended going to see this movie in the theaters (not worth the $40 it would have cost for 2 tickets & popcorn) but I do like vampires and I knew I would eventually have to see it and $4.99 was worth it. If you like vamps, and haven’t’ seen it, don’t pay over $5.00 but check it out.