Daybreakers (2009)
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Joshua James57 said:I have to admit—I was expecting something a bit different at the end there. I really thought they might go the route of using blood from those "cured" corpses instead of just some synthetic substitute—sort of a way to reset the population back toward humanity—but nope, nothing. (Now I’m actually sitting here overthinking how they would have even pulled that off) It's just Dafoe standing there like, "Come get your medicine," and I'm just like... what? It feels like a massive saga just wrapped up, but without the payoff..🤣
I'm with you—they probably left the ending hanging to make the scale of the whole scheme feel more epic, aiming for that artistic impact—but honestly, that's just lost on this particular movie.
There are bright spots, though. I actually liked the concept of a vampire civilization and the logistics of how that would function on a day-to-day basis—especially the way the "normal" vampires look down their noses at the transformed ones, acting like, "We are a hundred times better than these animals." You could definitely draw a parallel there to what happens to our own society once we run out of the resources we depend on—how civilized will we actually remain?
But that's really it. They had one great idea and then basically decided to kill it off with messy plotting, lukewarm characters, and dialogue that just doesn't land. And I have to hand it to them, they actually succeeded in making it feel that way ☕
Rating 4/10