Watching this movie felt like 30 days of crap

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2008)

I sat down to watch "30 days of night" with a bit of a high expectation. The editors did a good job when they made the trailers. They hooked me, I was interested, but ended up being disappointed by the grab bag of clichés and lack of character development.
Although I did find myself to be tense from the suspense , I also found that I was tense from being annoyed as I watched. Fast jerking quick camera shakes during sudden violent scenes brought me to the conclusion that the Blair Witch camera man had developed an evolved case of Parkinsons and then landed a job shooting "30 days of night." This attempt at creating a mood of urgency and panic in the scene only succeeded in making me say, "what the hell just happened?" The acting coach also succeeded in creating the most annoying vampires in movie history. Their constant cry to one another was like being punched in the face with a dying cat. They also kill a bunch of dogs towards the beginning of the movie, but with knives? Some of what was going on just didn't make any sense.
I found it hard to keep track of who was who, probably because there were a lot of people and not a lot of development into who they were. All in all, it was a good attempt but too many factors made it unREwatchable. So if you have a poor attention span, don't mind bad explanations, and maybe even have a small case of ADD, then you've just figured out what to do for about 2 hours.