Daybreakers (6/10)

When Ethan Hawke's character tested a blood-substitute on a soldier and that soldier exploded, I was the only one who burst out laughing in the cinema. Fortunately, the movie got better from there.This had a unique story. Whether or not the premise was sound is up for debate - how the world has taken over by vampires, creating a society very much like the humans'. I for one welcomed its freshness. It really was a new perspective, about how most humans have turned into vampire and the predicament was that the tasty human blood became rare.I appreciated how the director didn't give us cheap scares. Well, he did gave us three, all involving a bat's sudden appearance and its shriek. But that had a theme so I did appreciate that idea. But other than that, it was the gore that filled the screen more, especially towards the end. And I thought it was well done most of the time, all gory and bloody - not for the faint of hearts, or stomach as my friend stopped eating her popcorn halfway through.The dialogue was the worst thing in the movie. "You feel so warm." - When Hawke said that without anything else to follow, that was when I was screaming in my head, who wrote these lines and thought they can get away with them?Story progression didn't gel very well, but for the most parts they were passable. Loop holes were inevitable I suppose. But overall story could have been a lot more complex and engaging had the writer-directors, the Spierig brothers, were more capable storytellers. As it were, Daybreakers was just too predictable.The action bits were little, but it's not an action movie; and it was done sufficiently well. I wouldn't mind having more of it because they didn't mess it up.  But what it should have had more of were the suspense and thrills. While not to be mistaken for the horrifying scares, a thriller of a piece to get the blood pumping would have added a lot more to what the movie had to offer.