Bowl of raw hamburger....

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2012)

In Barrow, Alaska, seventy percent of the population of five hundred and some dwellers travel on the day of the last sunset, since the town will stay alone for the next thirty days without sun light.
Sheriff Eben Oleson and Deputy Billy Kitka find several cell phones burned on the road.
Then they receive a call from the local caretaker saying that all his sled dogs have been slaughtered; later Eben finds the operator of the cell tower decapitated.
He arrests a troublemaker drifter and the stranger frightens him by saying, "they are coming and the locals will be dead." Soon Eben discovers that the town is under siege by a gang of bloodthirsty vampires and with a few survivors, they hide in an empty attic waiting for the next sunrise....
A great looking film is marred by a few clichés they couldn't help but chuck in, but 30 days of night is still one of the slickest vampire movies of the last twenty years.
The cast are great and the claustrophobic setting is one hell of way to set a movie, but the one weak link in this is on Ben Foster.
I like the actor, but in the years of 2006 and 2007, he played this part too many times, and it became his hindrance. Here he does his same old 'potential psycho' schtick, and it just didn't gel.
Hartnett is great in this, but it boggles me that this is one of his last big movies, as he seems to really put his all in this and the story. As i've already said, the editing and camera-work in this is beautiful, and the special effects are some of the best in 2007.
Kudos to Huston too, playing one of the most mystical vampires seen on screen in a long time.
In the advent of 'Twilight', this is the perfect antidote to those movies, best watched when it's cold, in the dark and on Blu Ray, because it's one of the best looking Blu Rays out there.
An empty film, but very entertaining..