an amusing waste of time

Rating: 4/10 (22 October 2007)

Really... just "haha". I kinda got that this was going to be a slasher flick, not a cerebral movie, but still ... Jason is a better killer than these guys.
The visuals were very nice, particularly that aerial shot. Still, all the gore was messy. Like others have noted, it's beyond stupid to massacre everyone in the middle of nowhere when time is ticking. Not only that, but the opening attempts by the vampires to keep the town without communication was pointless: who were they trying to keep in? Most people had left already. You woulda thought they would have burned the town and went on to the next town a week or so before sunrise, instead a couple of hours before. Also, there was more characterization in Jurassic Park, and that was paper-thin. Speaking of which, the vampires looked cool but sounded like asthmatic velociraptors. Heck, the raptors were more intelligent than this. I realize, having read some of the comments on here, that some grew tired of stylized or (God forbid) INTELLIGENT vampires ... but, I mean, come ON ... Where are the humans kept as reserves? Why can't there be any survivors except that one guy in the jail, who they also kill later? I had to go over to Wikipedia to learn why the vampires couldn't sense what was so obvious ... this movie did nothing to explain anything, really. I kinda get how some people interpret a lack of vampire "culture" as fresh and scary, but I just see it as narrative laziness.
My brother and I couldn't figure out if we were going to root for the humans or the vampires. The multiple time skips seemed unnecessary since apparently, hiding from vampires is quite easy. Just wait a week in each room until the movie's over. All the killings were so over-the-top it was just laughable. I was half-expecting Hot Shots Part Deux-type "body count counter"-like things to show up so we could keep track of the roughly 20 to 50 people the vampires kill. If Transformers' notion of bringing a big robot war to a heavily populated city was stupid (and I liked that movie), making sure nearly everyone had already left from this Little Town of Nowheresville was even more stupid. How can there be any suspense if nearly everyone is gone? I enjoyed the concept of the ending, but it was poorly executed (pun slightly intended).