Daybreakers

2010 "In 2019, The Most Precious Natural Resource... Is Us."
6.4| 1h38m| R| en
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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.

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BlazeLime Strong and Moving!
Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Andy Van Scoyoc This movie is amazing in one aspect...the way the vampires live, at night, the way the rest of us do in the daylight.During the day, the world is barren and empty. It looks as if everyone just disappeared.At night though, it's busy. There's jobs, bills to pay, cars have been altered in case of the need for daytime driving, news anchors, senators, police...everyone , every person, is a vampire...with only a handful of survivng humans...and any that are captured, are "farmed" for their blood.But...like any group or majority in power, there's always going to be someone who feels sorry for the minority/underdog...and in this movie, the humans couldn't have gotten a better ally in the form of Ed, a Hematologist with a heart who is tasked with finding a way to synthesize a blood substitute against the ever dwindling human population.With no blood, when humans are finally extinct...so are vampires...or worse yet, turn into these pitiful, grotesque creatures that, in popular fiction, have always been the base animal of what is, a vampire. Savage, feeding on their own bodies, they are powerful and insane...a bad combination for the vampires who consider them a disgusting sub species. The ending was lack luster and a let down, but the rest of the movie makes up for the disappointing finish.Definitely worth a watch.
punisherversion1 Daybreakers: Written and directed by the Spierig BrothersThis is a movie about a world where vampires have taken over the planet and the food source is dwindling. This is a movie where world building is the core of the plot. It spends a lot of time showing what the world would be like in the day to day and the changes in societal situations as well. It introduces a conflicted protagionist looking for a solution to the problems facing their world. Bit by bit, what he thinks he knows about the way things work is not entirely true. His world is shattered until you're left with the difficult choices you have to make in order to make things succeed.I know that sounds like a sappy indie mumblecore style drama but it's not. It's in a movie where vampires have eaten everything they can and are now running out of food. When they run out of food, they turn into a bat person, a literal man-bat who lives on the blood of whatever they find. There's so much introduction that when you finally find out, there's almost no story left. It's that simplistic. It works. It's different especially living in the age post Twilight. I enjoyed the film for what it brought to the table. I wanted more. I wanted a more in depth look at a world starving. I wanted to spend more time in vampire land but it was not to be. You were here one minute and then the next minute people were being violently torn apart by starving crazed vampires.I give this movie a C.
sol- Set in a future in which close to 100% of the human population has been turned into vampires, the key theme of 'Daybreakers' is survival given an ever-dwindling blood supply due to the increasing scarcity of human beings. Ethan Hawke plays a haematologist employed to find a substitute source of sustenance for when the blood supply runs dry, however, he would much rather find a cure for vampirism itself. Also thrown into the mix are his boss, who would prefer not to have a cure, since the need for blood is good for business, and some renegade humans who believe that they have accidentally stumbled on a cure. Intriguing as all this might make 'Daybreakers' sound, it is a pretty uneven a ride with such a large focus on high octane action and gore that its thought-provoking ideas never feel properly explored. The lack of any explanation for the cause of the vampire disease also feels like a cop-out and while the film does eventually come up with two cures, neither solution is fleshed out in depth, which results in unanswered questions arising. The film boasts a lot of thought and consideration in other areas though. The black-out cars are nifty, there is a darkly comic moment when we learn that vampire animals wandering into daylight have resulted in an increase in forest fires (!) and there is a lot to like in the corporate greed agenda at the heart of the film.
danishparab2 As I know this movie is a vampire horror film.I was very eager to see this film and it does not disappoint. It is well directed film by sperig brothers.believe me it keeps us edge of seat and a warning to those people who don't see horror movie much don't see if u are not strong to handle this because this movie contains eating of humans very badly and it is not horror it is bloody horror film.so u are eager for plot.the plot is that a plague comes where human gets a chance but they refuse and that world human become vampires and some humans only save but they want help of anyone vampire to save them and they got Ethan hawke as there help and then what it is full of horror.so i will not say full story. Go watch it is worth of money and ur time is not wasted as the purge anarchy does.