Daybreakers

You know what is rare these days? Anything with an original idea or at the very least, something that actually has a different take on a popular subject. Case in point: Daybreakers.

At the core, Daybreakers is a vampire movie but that, for me at least, was not my focus of interest. What was interesting and different here was the fact that vampires, unlike other movies, were not the ones in hiding. As it was, they were the dominate ones and the humans were the ones forced into hiding. Those who did not, were either killed or captured and put into "blood farms."

Seriously, they even had their own coffee shop that served coffee with blood as the cream.

And this also had a interesting conflict: The vampire population had grown as such that they were farming and killing humankind to the point of extinction. Kind of reflective of our planet's current plight? Because of this, vampires that were deprived of blood underwent brutal transformations that saw them degenerate into nothing more then feral monsters that attacked any vampire or human they came across.

Ah, but the twist here is how a cure for this is found, which is certainly different though I can't say I bought it, but still. I would write about that, but that would all but ruin the movie I think.

The cast themselves was pretty damn good, which included Ethan Hawke, Willem DaFoe, Sam Neill and Claudia Karvan. They all seemed to work well together and none of them were out of place. I guess what I am meaning to say is they were all a natural fit for the movie.

All in all, worth the rental for sure... and a much better movie then say, Legion? Yes, yes... much, much better in my opinion.