About as deep as a puddle.

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2008)

I just watched this film with a friend and we felt so utterly appalled that we had to sign up and save others from making the same mistake we have. Before i begin the 'movie-bashing' there were a couple of infrequent positives throughout the film- the gore is well done and there is a mild amount of tension built up at the beginning. However these aspects to not help to cover up the distinct lack of storyline and the poor conveyance of the personalities of all of the characters. There was a massive opportunity to take advantage of the love between the two main characters and take the plot to the next level, but this was barely exploited. The long and unexplained skips in time made it hard to follow what was going on and left a lot of the story unexplained, such as how the group made it to day 27 from day 7. The vampires themselves seemed fairly intelligent and powerful, yet they were not clever enough to think that the best way to catch the people would be to monitor where they would be getting their supplies from. On top of this, the amount of times that Josh Hartnett managed to escape from the vampires was ridiculous, especially considering how easilyh they managed to plough through the others. Furthermore the end to the story where the hero, unlike the others who were previously 'turned', had the heart of character to avoid mutilating his friends and concentrated on saving them- yet another of the ambiguities of the film. The ending was poor, it is assumed we were meant to be feeling some sort of empathy with Melissa George as she has just lost the one she loves, yet this is not really the case as the plot was never thickened enough to give us this sentiment. Yet this is primarily a horror story in the end, so core is a viable substitute to plot to some extent, which is why i have given this film a 4 rather than a 1