An good idea made into an OK film.

Rating: 6/10 (7 January 2009)

This is a good idea for a vampire file, 30 days of night in the Arctic should be perfect. The acting is quite good with Hartnett, George and Boone Junior giving very god performances, the rest of the cast don't have much to do.
The characters are mostly likable and mostly behave in a believable way.
The vampires are a little over-done in their movements but at least they behave consistently, none of this convenient swap from fast to slow and smart to dumb as the plot requires.
There is plenty of action and a few unexpected twists as you go along. The ending is dark and done well without being over-played.
The main problem I had with this is that the sense of time isn't kept, the people are supposed to be there for 30 days but don't need to shave or get cabin fever, it might as well have been 1 day of night for all the difference that the 30 days made to the story. There is also the one stupid bit where a building with bright lights, outside and in, and its own power is ignored when so much effort is made to dismantle everything else.
Still those minor problems aside it is a nice horror that's easy to sit back and watch.