Riveting and well played out; I was very entertained

Rating: 8/10 (15 April 2008)

David Slade brings to the table a fun and chilling vampire flick with great pizazz and a straightforward plot to where the movie doesn't get too caught up in itself with twists and unnecessary edginess to give the viewer plain out fun and enjoyment from the get-go. Sure, this movie is no Oscar nominee, but it was excellently done and I found myself surprisingly enticed in the plot and characters with an intensity. The actors and actresses do a lot better than you would think with their somewhat tasteless characters and you can get into them because they're not so tasteless as the script calls for.
Josh Hartnett is fantastic, David Slade directed just fine and all the other cast and crew did a very pleasing job with this movie. I thought the vampires were a little unoriginal, and in this case that's a bad thing, and the movie, like I said, not getting too fed up with itself does enough at times to make it seem unsavory, and make it seem like a "big, bad" film when it really just should've went with the flow, and even though it's definitely not Hard Candy, it's non-stop gratification just like Hard Candy was and I was very pleased with it.