One of the worst movies I've seen!

Rating: 1/10 (19 October 2007)

My wife and I went to 30 Days of Night with great anticipation; the concept and the trailers made it seem like we'd be in for a real treat! The movie began to disappoint from the beginning. Apart from having so many goofs in depicting a Barrow and the arctic that it became a source of distraction, there was much too long a wait for real action! Then we were subjected to what seemed to be the standard, generic, plot that we've all seen in countless B films and TV shows with a veneer of the vampire story. My wife thought that the language spoken by the vampires sounded, insultingly, close to native Alaskan speech patterns; especially since the native population of Barrow was almost completely left out of the film. She also thought that too much of the mayhem was off-screen, we were left with interior scenes of people talking and talking when we could have been seeing blood flying in the snow. The white outs could have looked like white outs: nothing visible and death coming suddenly out of the white. The vampires could have been naked, not dressed in evening-wear. A much better movie could have been made with a feeling of the supernatural conquering even the awesome force of nature in the arctic and the mere human having to face both.