What a load of old b*llocks

Rating: 1/10 (13 October 2009)

I have never been a major fan of horror movies and steer even further from those with a vampire theme as the fiction is repetitive and can at times overkill for the sake of blood and guts flying in to camera lenses and red mouthed faces arching back in slow motion in the moonlight after draining a body in the only other method of sucking off another person.
So I wasn't looking forward to watching the questionable Josh Hartnett lead a film about the above and boy was I right to feel that way, this film is really really crap, so crap that I can picture the sound boom guys falling asleep and hitting Hartnett on the head several times, thus his complete inability to convey any emotion whatsoever, but then again maybe he got used to the flog in his hand and the dead horse before him after the first day of shooting.
I feel compelled to warn you all away from this film and even Sam Raimi as executive producer seemingly asked that his credit be flashed in mini text for a nano second as the titles roll at the end.
The vampires speak some form of chicken language but can also speak English and are not sure why they are doing what they are doing and Hartnett goes from being a run of the mill town sheriff to Bruce Lee within a minute, again no explanation, maybe he had the matrix? Might as well be the case as this would be just as plausible as the rest of the plot/non plot.
The money spent on this detritus could have been used to build a school in Afirca which could educate hundreds and eventually produce an actor / director who could have done a decent job here, just a thought? Please don't make films if you cant be bothered with and haven't worked out from start to finish, it insults the movie going populations intelligence.
30 days of night = Big bag of sh*te