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Must Go!
Written January 12, 2010
for certain viewers only

by hyperlasers

The vampires in this film:
1) Degenerate into mutant bat monsters without adequate blood supply
2) Die horrific fiery deaths in the sun
3) Occasionally explode.

The film itself has some pretty heavy messages against:
1) The military
2) The pharmaceutical industry.

The plot is primarily about:
1) Greed
2) Self-interest
3) Desperation.

The amount of on-screen gore is:
1) AWESOME.

You will like this film if you enjoy:
1) Real vampires
2) An edgy plot that is engaging yet easy to follow
3) Unspeakable amounts of blood and gore
4) Comic relief in the form of slow-motion, people-devouring-people carnage.

You will likely be offended if you are:
1) Affiliated with the military
2) Affiliated with the pharmaceutical industry
3) Affiliated with the GOP
4) Not inclined to watch people explode or be eaten alive.

You will be disappointed if you are hoping for:
1) A stupid romance subplot
2) An opportunity to take out the wife.
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Must Go!
Written January 8, 2010
Good old-fashioned vampire flick

by tomko44

Sick of all these damn lovey-dovey vampire?. Miss the good old days when the only good blood-suckers was a staked blood-sucker? Then this is the movie for you! But this movie wasn't just a vamp-flick. It was a statement on how quickly a society can collapse and how survival at all costs may be a price not worth paying. Only issue I have was the end... I would have changed the last 5 minutes. I think once you see it, it is obvious what SHOULD have happened.
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So-so
Written January 13, 2010
At least it didn't sparkle!

by StarWarsLuvr

Sorry, no offense toward the Twilight fans but it was refreshing to see evil looking vampires with fangs!! I liked "Daybreakers" for the story of vampires ruling the Earth and left few humans alive as food. That was cool!! But I felt the main characters' back stories weren't fully developed. Nonetheless, it was entertaining to the end!
- 7 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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Oh No!
Written January 9, 2010
Dear Mr. Dracula- Please forgive me for supporting this film with my $8 ticket.

by mr_glass_half_full

I went to this film expecting to be as great as the previews and was met with a bored theater full of chatty viewers due to the poor acting & lack of story to keep your full attention. I could have eaten a bowl of alpha-bits cereal & crapped out a better story-line. I would highly reccommend this film to annoying mother-in-laws, & anyone that needs a great reason to dry heave whilst clawing out their eyes.
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Go
Written January 23, 2010
Great!

by annie patterson

If you're a ran of REAL vampires, you should see this. These vampires don't 'sparkle' in the sun, they burn, like vampires do. Shoot em with a wooden stake and they blow up. It is a little gory, with body parts being torn off and blood splattering everywhere but overall it's a good movie that sticks to most stories about vampires. Twilight made vampires seem so soft and lovable, this movie...not so much.
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No
Written January 15, 2010
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

by Chris105

Great storyline, poor execution. The movie went nowhere, fast. Wait for video if that.
- 4 out of 5 found this review helpful.
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Oh No!
Written January 9, 2010
Day Breakers will not Brighten your Day...

by The Movie Guru5

I'm not sure what was going through the directors mind or the actors when they agreed to do this movie, but it stunk really bad. Bad movies always use cheap cheap scare tactics when they can't think of anything new(ex. the loud noise out of nowhere, or the dark room where nothing is visible to begin with). Regardless, this movie took cheap to another level and when the movie was over, all the people were chanting about how horrible it was. So, I wasn't the only one... Just save your money and rent it, because you would be doing yourself a horrible mistake by purchasing the dvd.
- 5 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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Oh No!
Written January 10, 2010
worst. movie. ever.

by tokyo007

this is possibly one of the worst movies ever made, and i actually mean that literally. the premise had some great potential, but it quickly turned into a cornucopia of terrible acting, wretched special effects, a plot line so transparent it borders on insulting, and an endless line up of visual and dialogue cliches....

had this been a genre spoof, maybe it would have been tolerable (maybe...); as is, it reads like a group of 11 year olds on Ritalin trying to make a sequel of I Am Legend using money they stole from their aunts' purse...
- 4 out of 6 found this review helpful.
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No
Written January 12, 2010
Cheesy, predictable, sometimes funny but overall pretty corny

by ruthlessbear

This movie was not at all what I was expecting. I thought the storyline would be a lot more interesting but it turned out to be rather predictable. The ending was a major disappointment. This movie combines all cliches about vampires into one really ridiculous story. I would not recommend you watch it, unless you're really bored.
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Must Go!
Written January 8, 2010
gory great time

by KevinS77

Movies like Twilight and New Moon have all but neutered vampires to make them suitable for teenage girls.

But Day Breakers returns vampires to their former glory to reign supreme on the silver screen!

This movie was a bloody gory mess, it was great!
- 4 out of 6 found this review helpful.
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Oh No!
Written January 10, 2010
DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE! Huge disaster, disappointment, terrible dialogue, boring scare tactics - a waste of time and money!!!

by GarciaM25

The premise of this movie looked amazing. Vampires run the world in the future and the human blood supply is running low. The movie goes from a decent plot to absurd very quickly, and makes you not want to even waste your time watching the last hour. It tried playing on scare tactics that were so boring that I could have fallen asleep - bats screaming across the screen repeatedly? Really? Then there was the dialogue: quotes like "Being a human in a world of vampires is like going bare-back with a $5 hooker" belong in a Tarentino film by a B-list actor, not from Willem Dafoe! It was funny how sad the direction was - the last monologue of the film made everyone look at each other and say "wow, really? we wasted $10 and 2 hours for that?" It is my personal mission to educate the masses so they don't make the mistake of seeing it in theaters, or EVER if they don't want to have to spend time reviewing it to warn others like I am right now!!!
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Must Go!
Written January 12, 2010
Thoroughly entertaining

by Faolnagael

It's really really nice to get back to the basics with the whole vampire sensation which we've seen over the last few decades as they diverge farther away from the original mythos and are reinvented time and again. Due to that I found it a breath of fresh air, even this movie wouldn't be something that I would consider a horror film like the older ones were billed as. That said, I think that the cast handled their roles very well and I enjoyed the storyline's development quite alot and would recommend this to my friends.
- 3 out of 5 found this review helpful.
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Oh No!
Written January 9, 2010
ugh....

by O2ShootTheJ

Wow, saw Daybreakers tonight and let's just say, the whole group I was with (about 10 guys) all thought it was HORRIBLE. Probably the worst movie I have seen in theaters ever. The movie itself had a decent plot, but it just wasn't entertaining and all the fake gore was just a little much. Don't waste your time or money on this movie, go see Avatar
- 4 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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I'll Pass
Written December 31, 2009
by Cyberella
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I'm In
Written November 15, 2009
by Facci
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