Is this really a Vampire movie?

Rating: 1/10 (23 November 2007)

This movie promised so much and delivered so little...
Horror movies are great, they push the envelope with tongue and cheek, B grade it all the way or give us a taste of otherworldliness with a great story and ending...this fails on all accounts.
The acting was woeful, I hate watching film and having to suspend my disbelief in terms of what the characters look like and sound like. What accent did they have? Oz, Nz, southern American? Is everyone in Alaska that pretty and have lovely darling capped teeth? Cause if they are, this movie has done the Alaskan tourist board a favor, I'm going! What a joke.
I enjoyed the strangers performance but kept waiting for him to eat bugs...and he did not...what a break through in vampire movie history! I mean come on, this film is riddled with minor tweaks to the Vampire myth to make it seem different, ooh in part two lets see them eating garlic...yeah! I have read reviews and can't believe people are hailing the monsters for there apathy to human kind. My question is WHY? Are they hungry animals? Where did they come from? The boat from the beginning of the film- what was that!? (nice shot but didn't explain or suggest much) The monsters/"Vampires" were one dimensional dribbling farces. It was rubbishy am-dram bird of prey acting, with clicks and giggles- although the editing and sound people did a good job to jump me once or twice...but that should be a given.
People might think Anne Rice and her team of dreamy think-too-much bunch of Vampires weren't hungry enough for some good Ole hunt down human savagery. BUT...at least we know who they were, where they come from. The basic ingredient of story telling- not to mention their scope of characters which actually go from young to old, mad to bad and ugly to beautiful.
The chorus of aliens/vampires in 30 Days, led by the big bad daddy Athiest all think through him. How boring! Why even bother having them talk, think and mention god at all- oh thats right, suppose you have to get 90 minutes in some how. I just hope I find out in part 2...if we are so lucky to see those tremendous actors grace the screen again. (Josh Hartnett not included) The zombie/Vampires were somewhere muddled in-between Velocerapters and the Jack off the shining, with no clear substance and a lack of decision making in the directing. I like clarity in my demons.
This is not a good film, nor is it average, it is not original and could of been something so much better- especially if naturally good looking people were used instead of wannabe white teethed hollywoodians.
Thanks for reading.