Daybreakers
Daybreakers is the dark side to vampirism. If all you Twilighter, fan girls only knew how painful being a vampire is, you’d not want to snuggle up to the next cutest one you saw.
Daybreakers imagines the world over come by vampires. They have become the human race, and what is left of the human race run from them in fear of becoming food. It is that food that has become scarce for the vampires. The world’s human population has dwindled and the blood supply nearly non-existent. The vampires try rationing; the only get 20% real human blood. They look for a substitute. If they don’t find it, they revert to Nosferatu. There may be a cure. Look to the sun, not for the shiny skin, but for the burn that may bring the undead back to life.
Ethan Hawke is the vampire scientist looking for the blood substitute. He harbors feelings for humans wishing that he wasn’t a vampire. Willem Defoe is a vampire who may hold the cure. Yet, the last days of vampires approaches fast and they may not be able to save vampires or humans.
With the world run by vampires, you would think that humans would like the day and fear the night. Nope. They do all their covert work under cover of the dark, because it’s harder to see them that way.
The ending will remind you of 28 Days Later.
Vampires are stupid. Yeah, but once your undead, you will wear snazzy clothing. And a fedora.
I really wish there were werewolves.
2 of 5 stars.
