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Daybreakers (2009)

Vampires rule the world in 2019 but apparently with immortality does not come an aptitude for forward planning as they have only enough humans left to supply one months worth of blood to feed the population. Ethan Hawke stars as a vampire scientist working on a synthetic blood substitute that gets distracted along the way.

There are a few unusual elements such as vampires that do not actually want to be vampires and the possibility of a cure fore vampirism that make the set up of this film fairly interesting but are not really capitalised on. How the vampires came to mismanage their food supplies and end up with only one month of blood left is never explained so we can only assume it is through stupidity, while this is supposed to be a weak allegory for man kinds wasting of resources it does not go anywhere.

Most of the film is fairly average, nothing from the casting, direction or sets and scenery really stand out. Vampires seem to be the hot topic in some circles thanks to a certain set of books so I expect someone was trying to get on the gravy train of general vampire interest with this movie but it has little to offer or set it a side from the average genre entry.

3/5 just about manages not to be a bad film.