Dual Review: Daybreakers

Daybreakers takes place in a world where almost everyone is a vampire. Everything seems to be going well, except for the fact that those who are not vampires, but normal humans, are hunted and harvested for blood. To make things worse the "supply" of blood is running out and a blood substitute needs to be found quickly before things get out of hand.

Jared's Take:

The story for Daybreakers was put together very well. The premise is interesting and I never found myself bored of my mind wandering. The acting was par for the course and never over the top.

I was really only disappointed in the CGI that was used some of the time. Most of the time the CG was really polished and good. There were sometimes that the CG was downright shoddy. The ending was semi anti-climactic, but not anything I can really complain about.

Overall Daybreakers is not the best movie, but I put it up as a strong...RENT IT!


Allan's Take:

LIKES: I like the semi-original story. Although it's based on vampires, this is the first time I've seen a world completely controlled by them just like they're the "normal" people. However, it is easy to see that the same basic idea is also the basis for the 1950s classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers (which has been remade multiple times). Also most of the special effects and CGI were well done. The Spierig brothers have no problem showing blood in a realistic way.

DISLIKES: Although most of the effects were good, there were at least a couple moments were it was bad. So bad it made me cringe. So I can't say this is a great special effects movie. Also too, Daybreakers lacks that sense of 'yeah, I wanna see this movie again'. It was never boring, but once you've seen it...you've seen it.

RATING: This is a good movie, but like I said before there's no real reason to call this a classic...RENT IT.

Review: The Collector

The Collector is a new entry into the horror film genre. The basic premise is that a man attempts to rob a house. What he doesn't know at first is that a sadistic killer is in the house torturing the family that lives there. He soon finds out that the killer has rigged the house with many deadly traps. Now the robber has to save the family members and get them out of the house before the killer realizes that he is there.

The premise of The Collector is a new one. I was actually surprised that someone came up with something this original. The story is set up with a killer and someone that serves strictly as an anti killer, if that makes sense.

Now the premise was good, but the execution of that plan was not as good. Think of this movie in this way, if you have seen any of the Saw movies you have seen The Collector. The scenario is played out as a what if Jigsaw came to your house type deal. There are plenty of moments that you cringe at and want to turn away from. That is exactly the place where most horror movies fail. The movie itself is not scary, it just has a lot of bloody, gory and disgusting sequences. They even try to give a cheap scare at the end of the title sequence. I shouldn't be too hard on this movie in particular though as most horror movies now fall under this category. Perhaps this type of movie is an example of what is wrong with the horror movie genre, nothing is created simply to scare you.

The Collector is worth watching at least once, but in my opinion you can wait and.....

Rent It.