I feel this movie is just mediocre. Not bad, but surely not good either. The premise is awesome, but that just makes you realize what a wasted opportunity for a great movie this is. It is painfully predictable in a way that you cringe at seeing at the end one of the bad guys (who, obviously you thought it was a good guy until a few minutes earlier) standing in front of our "heroes", about to shoot them while he says: "I'm sorry, but I can't let you leave/live/get away with it/etc"; the you see another of the good guys coming out of nowhere and shooting/killing him right after he spends his last seconds giving the "Dr. Evil" diatribe that all heroes/victims hear just before they are miraculous saved... I mean, c'mon! Photography is awful (Ok, I supposed that was intentional, but it looked like a movie from the 70s/80s). CGI was good most of the time, but pretty fake at moments. Dialog CHEESY as hell. Acting decent, except for "Frankie" sometimes, and Willem Dafoe's character "Elvis", but I bet is not his blame. I can almost see the director telling him: "Cheesier, Willem, you have to overact your part!". It should be a good rental (I watched it on a free screening last night, so I can't complain), but I wouldn't pay a full movie ticket to watch it (believe me, the trailers from this movie are deceivingly better than the movie itself). All in all, if it was worse than what it is, maybe it could have fallen in the "so bad it's good" category, but unfortunately, like I said from the beginning, it is just plain average.
Review of Daybreakers
