Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Jackson Booth-Millard I knew that this was meant to be some sort of scary movie, I was interested because of the monsters that featured, the good cast, and it was rated well by critics, so I hoped for something worthwhile, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty). Basically in a small town in Pheonix, Arizona, late at night young cowboy Caleb Colton (Heroes' Adrian Pasdar) meets young beautiful drifter beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright), she asks him for a ride to her trailer. Before dawn, Mae bites Caleb on the neck, he is forced to walk home when his truck does not start, however when the sun rises and hits him, he starts to burn. Suddenly Caleb's father Loy (Tim Thomerson) and sister Sarah (Marcie Leeds) witness a van appearing out of the blue, and Caleb is pulled in and kidnapped. Caleb is introduced to Mae's family, a group of vampires: the leader Jesse Hooker (Lance Henriksen), his girlfriend Diamondback (Aliens' Jenette Goldstein), the cruel Severen (Bill Paxton) and the boy Homer (Joshua John Miller). What they all have in common is that they are all predatory creatures of the night who urge for and survive on blood, but Caleb refuses to kill, so Mae gives him her own blood to keep him alive. While Caleb is forced to join the vampire gang on their road trip, as they seek victims, while also trying to enjoy themselves, including nights in bars, Loy and Sarah are looking for Caleb, they eventually find him in a motel. Caleb has to choose whether to return to his beloved family, but eventually the vampires are killed off one by one in various circumstances, Jesse, Severen and Diamondback turn vicious, and will do whatever it takes to stop and kill Caleb and Mae, but in the end they survive and comfort each other. Also starring Kenny Call as Deputy Sheriff, Ed Corbett as Ticket Seller, Troy Evans as Plainclothes Officer and Bill Cross as Sheriff Eakers. Pasdar is alright as the luckless farm boy, Wright is seductive, and Henriksen and Paxton are good at being the nasty villains, it is a simple story about a gang of bloodsuckers, acting like outlaws, and trying to stay one step ahead of daylight, it is an interesting mixture of a road movie, a western and a scary movie, with striking moments of bloody violence, it is a watchable horror thriller. Good!

A_Different_Drummer The musical question is, with Bigelow behind the camera and big names in front, how can you go wrong? The answer? This is, was, and always will be a B grade film done on the cheap with a small ensemble cast. As such it does offer historical interest for cinephiles especially since the idea of looking at the "human" side of vampires was at least 10 years ahead of the curve and that deserves credit. Ditto for the fact that script -- which is sharp in some places and terrible in others -- does not even use the word "vampire" which, for the era, was a sign of great restraint.However that said, the truth is that this is not really a classic and does not hold up that well over time. There is also an internal imbalance, the first half of the film is much tighter and more coherent than the second, as money ran out during shooting which, given the era and the genre, might have actually happened.

The_Film_Cricket Vampire movies are the easiest kinds of horror movies to attend. We know all the rules and we know the scenerio. But it's what the director does with those two conventions that determine the film's success.We know that vampires can never go out in daylight (a rule which is based around a logic that I have yet to understand). The second thing we know is that vampires must constantly drink blood (why do they never visit slaughter houses?) This allows us the scenerio from almost every single vampire movie that has probably ever been made. Two characters are necessary: one has been a vampire since time began (no one is ever bitten in the 60s) and the other is a young virgin that the vampire bit and must now go through the agonizing process of figuring out how he/she is going to live for all of eternity living by all of the rules mentioned above.Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark' takes these rules and does something neat with them. She sets a family of vampires in a van with the new guy (Adrian Pasdar) and puts them on a nocturnal trek across the southwest. Along the way we run into a redneck bar where some of the best scenes in the movie come to life (which I won't spoil with one single word). Following hot on their trail is Pasdar's father (Tim Thomerson) who thinks he knows how to cure his son.This leads to all sorts of complications that we can predict. You know what to expect but you are waiting to see the approach that Bigelow takes. This movie is fun, I enjoyed the swaggering characters, I enjoyed the plot twists and I enjoyed the preposterousness of the whole enterprise. You know what to expect but you don't expect it to come together this well.

zhinronxbox This movie was written by a 13 year old girl I believe. One who had ideas that would be cool for a movie. So with that being said, this movie was horrible. The worst part of the movie is the ending. SPOILER ALERT: All throughout the movie the vampires could not even get hit with sunlight before being burned/exploding. But at the end, the vampires are in a car driving off. The sun hits them and they all explode except 1. The love interest of the movie. So she is flung out of the car DURING THE DAY without any form of protection. She THAN wakes up in a hillbilly farm where she was given a blood transfusion by the farmers and she is human again....worst...movie...ever. Unless you are blind and deaf...but you will probably still hate it. It has bill paxton and bishop so I gave it a 3