Daybreakers is the pinnacle of fun, modern sci-fi horror actioners.
Daybreakers
In 2019, the most precious natural resource... is us.
2010 · 1h 38m · R
Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Michael Spierig
,
Peter Spierig
Overview
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
Director and cast
- Michael Spierig Director
- Peter Spierig Director
- Ethan Hawke as Edward Dalton
- Sam Neill as Charles Bromley
- Willem Dafoe as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
- Claudia Karvan as Audrey Bennett
- Isabel Lucas as Alison Bromley
- Vince Colosimo as Christopher Caruso
- Jay Laga'aia as Senator Turner
- Michael Dorman as Frankie Dalton
- Harriet Minto-Day as Lisa Barrett
- Tiffany Lamb as News Reader
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Hawke gives his all here -- or maybe just half his all -- and it isn't quite enough: He's trying to be soulful, but he really just looks a little tired. The real delight is Willem Dafoe.
For the lowbrow, the thrill is a level of fleshy explosiveness reminiscent of David Cronenberg's Scanners. No one dies quietly; he must either detonate like Hiroshima or burst into juicy red chunks of viscera.
Daybreakers is more fun than foreboding; it's fright-lite, yet that's par for the bloody course in these busy apocalyptic days.
The narrative may flag, but the doomsday atmosphere and George Liddlea(TM)s production design remain vivid until the final, blood-splattered reel.
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