Who’s in it?: Ethan Hawke (The Explorers, Reality Bites), Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire, Boondock Saints)

A wise man once said, “The only thing I hate about Santa Clara is all the God damned vampires…”  Well, sir, I loved your movie by the way (that was from The Lost Boys if you didn’t catch it); but I would put it this way, “The only thing I hate about movies these days is all the God damned vampires…”.

Obviously there are too many vampire movies these days…

Fucking vampires.  I’m sick of this crap.  Sadly, this one isn’t even that bad.  It’s a little more futuristic, set a few years down the road.  Vampires have taken over.  Because humans are in short supply, the few that remain are being slowly bled out so that vampires don’t starve to death.  Ethan Hawke is a vampire, who just happens to be a blood doctor recruited by a surviving band of humans who want him to help them come up with a cure for the vampire sickness.  Speaking of Ethan Hawke, what the is up with that dude?  He’s always been kind of a mopey dope.

So anyways, um, well, it’s stylistic but it’s nothing that hasn’t already been seen in the Blade movies.  It’s pretty violent, too — like scenes of people getting ripped in half crazy violent.  Willem Dafoe is pretty bad ass in it.  But when is Willem Dafoe not a bad ass?  Here he’s a vampire but then he’s not, but then he is…and it’s all part of the twist that heals the vamp-oh I don’t wanna ruin the ending do I?  There are some decent action pieces stuck between a bunch of chatty filler that’s kinda boring.  But it does have some entertaining stuff, like bloody violent action and it’s not the worst vampire movie I saw this summer….I’m looking at you, Edward.

7/10