boe_dye's review of 28 and 2 days of night later...

Rating: 5/10 (21 October 2007)

Now, i wont say it was bad.
I wont say it was good.
I will say that it was bloody, and gory and lottsa people died very bloody and gory deaths.
...
First off, let's get one thing straight. it's a freaking vampire movie. if you can't get beyond that then you really have no business walking into the theatre.
So me and my wife didn't really go into this thinking that it was going to be some kinda epic story that had tons of character development.
At first thought we figured that aside from the obvious it was going to be a vampire movie that at the very least seemed to have a quasi original ideae. instead of the vampires having the weakness of always having be in bed during the day, they can now roam free and slaughter all day long cause in alaska once a year the sun doesn't shine for about 30 days.
... But then as the movie progressed something started to feel somewhat familiar... lottsa people getting slaughtered by blood thirsty undeads... always hiding out and huddling in the corners. keeping quiet so they cannot be found... scavenging the grocery store so in order to find food...
Wait a minute... this sounds a whole lot like 28 days later!!!! I totally understand that it is rather difficult to come up with an original idea nowadays, but at least having somewhat of a unique spin on it? The vampires looked like something out of a resident evil (the game) and one of them looked like jocelyn wildenstein. and i could have sworn that at some points they were speaking something that sounded a lot like klingonese (at least that's what it was originally called in trouble with tribbles...) The end like way to many movies nowadays was anti-climatic, and left me wanting. almost like the same feeling that you get when you eat Chinese takeout... what was the point? I could go on and on about the why not do this, or why not do that. but it would be quite pointless.
On the plus side, there were some new types of footage used here and there. and unlike like "saw" where they make it as gory and absurd as possible the carnage does have the ability to make one wince from time to time.
...
In the end, my final thought while as the credits rolled was that blade could have taken care of the whole town in about ten minutes...
Selene could have done it in about 15, but only cause she's much more aesthetically pleasing on camera.