Daybreakers: Real Vampires Interesting Plot

As I watch a news program about the decline of water in America I am reminded of the movie Daybreakers, with a similar storyline except the liquid they need that is running out is blood.

Based in the year 2019 humans were given a choice, turn into a vampire or be farmed for blood. Those who choose to stay human are on the run, which the Vampire Army was created to find them. Now this might sound cheesy, but trust; the way this is filmed and the graphics of this nightly vampire world is the real thing not like the Twilight Saga. The new vampire world has so much technology, like cars made to block out sunlight and can fix flats without even pulling over a reminder of The Dark Knight or something to that effect. The vampires think that they have the good life, not being able to die and all. Unfortunately the decline of blood is changing some into some mutant type of vampire that sort of looks like the ones we saw in early films, pointy ears with wings, and skinny claw like fingers. This is where Ethan Hawke's character Edward Dalton comes in, working for a big scientific company that supplies the vampire population with blood, he is the chief hematologist helping to find a blood surrogate. After an accident causes Dalton to cross paths with humans he learns of a man, Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac, played by Willem Defoe, who was once a vampire, but is now a human again, finding that there is a cure from the vampire disease. The head of the company that Dalton works for, Charles Bromley, played by Sam Neil doesn't want a cure but wants the blood substitute to continue life as a vampire. It is interesting what they find is the cure.

I think the best part of this film is the length they go to make these human turn vampires seem like that is the way life has always been. From signs of "Uncle Sam" trying to get more to join the Vampire Army, and the coffee stands that include coffees with blood, to the Subway walk which allows them to walk during the day free of sunlight, it all shows the lengths these Vampire creatures go to live as such and the extint to which the directors and writers Michael and Peter Spierig, go for the movie. Aside from the technology this film is extra gory, beginning with a vampire suicide, continuing with plenty of vampire's exploding guts and biting the a person so much they are decapitated. If that is your thing this is your movie. Ethan Hawke shines as the main character in his best film since Assault on Precinct 13. Best line in the movie: "Life's a Bitch and then you don't die." I would recommend this film to anyone who is tired of the Twilight Saga and misses what vampires really are, blood thirsty savages, wanting to suck your blood, except for the beginning where they are cleaner about the blood and don't actually hunt and suck blood they simple have a glass of blood over ice. Still this is a great vampire film.