Could have been worse.

Rating: 7/10 (19 October 2007)

So I ended up in a vampire movie. With Josh Hartnett. That certainly has all the potential for making one's blood boil and one's toes curl.
Alas, it actually isn't such a bad movie. Sure, it's a vampire flick with a pretty boy as the star, but if you can get over that initial realization and the associated horror, and just go with the flow, there is a good chance you might enjoy yourself.
There is some decent acting from a fairly interesting cast, there are some pretty scary and reasonably original undead, there are great visuals, obviously involving quite a bit of well-done gore, and even the script isn't all that bad. It's perhaps not an all-time horror classic, but it decent enough horror entertainment that could have been a lot worse.
I even like the ending---some might find it a bit overly melodramatic, and it probably is, but it has original plot elements and also some nice visuals. Pretty good overall.