Cast:Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill, Jay Laga'aia, Christopher Kirby, Renai Caruso, Mungo McKay, Robyn Moore
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
warning number one
I came across a poster which read “the matrix meets 28 days later you get DayBreakers" this my friends is a huge load of crap. DayBreakers is a quirky dark look at a world gone wrong, and while flawed ( a huge portion of the vampire mythos is turned on its head synthesized and set loose in a 20 minute span) it's really a really pretty entertaining.
but if you're expecting a rollicking gun toting good time you will be severely (seeevvveeerely) to disappointed. DB bares little to no resemblance to contemporary hot topic versus John Woo fluff that's been assaulting filmgoers as of late ( see underworld and/or ultra violet)
to be honest the cookie-cutter garbage this fick (misleadingly) was advertised to be I had no interest in but then while flipping through an old Fangoria came to my attention that Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig had unearthed DB and suddenly my opinion flipped.
okay warning number 2
anyone who saw the Spierig brothers madcap zombie opus "undead" and was expecting a Breakers to have the same wacky by the seat of its pants down maybe disappointed as well.
what it really is is a strange little art-house flick with a few bucks behind it an inventive production design.
it has a pitch black point of view and perhaps the most unhappy happy ending I've ever see.
it's top sidedly heavy-handed in its political allegory.
It's worth watching. but leave the expectations at home
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