30 days of moving

Rating: 4/10 (20 October 2007)

30 Days of Night was horrible. One of the worst films over the year. I had high hopes for it, I mean Hard Candy's David Slade was directing, how could it have gone wrong? Simple. It was pointless and flawed in almost every aspect. If it wasn't for the good photography and camera angles then this film would've joined Captivity and Intervention as my only 1/10 films for 2007.
30 Days starts off by telling you facts about Barrow, Alaska, how it's the northernmost city in Alaska and how once each year it is plunged into 30 days of night. Slade introduces you to the character's and tries to show you how each of them flawed in a certain way to make you have feelings for them, although whenever someone died I felt no remorse what so ever, in fact, if I could have, I would've started to sing Another One Bites the Dust in the middle of the theater.
The thing I was most surprised by the though, was how shitty the script was. It was written by Steve Niles (The man behind the graphic novel), Brian Nelson (Hard Candy), and Stuart Beattie (Collateral). 30 Days had numerous scenes of corny lines and irrelevant dialog. The reason for the name of my review is because every time a new time card popped up Josh Hartnett would be the first to talk, and every damn time he did he'd say, "We need to move." By the end of the film they had moved at least 4 times I'm pretty sure.
Most people who liked the film were using the defense that it was a.) really gory or b.) super scary. I can now wrong them. My response to 'a' is yes, it did have lots of gore, some of it was cool, but really, does gore make a movie a 7/10? My conclusion to 'b' is great I think, plain and simple the film wasn't scary at all. There's no sense of isolation because most of the characters walk around an attic making tons of noise while the vampires are supposed to be walking along the roofs. If they're so superior wouldn't they have an increased sense of hearing? I will compliment the film on one other note however, they did do a good job of making vampires look undead for once. The teeth and the eyes helped increase the intensity of some of the scenes, still though that's not enough to save a film. Save your money for this one.
I give it a 4/10