Your standard mainstream horror movie

Rating: 6/10 (19 October 2007)

After seeing the commercial for this movie a thousand times I just had to see it. As a matter of fact, the line "No God" would have been reason enough for me to watch this movie. Fortunately the rest of the movie was also rather entertaining, but not more than that.
We've seen it all before. A group of survivors being killed off one by one until only a few given surviving characters are left. It includes people sacrificing themselves, some being "turned" and of course some people that just cant keep it together and makes a totally irrational decision and gets themselves killed. Where have we seen this? Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, The Hills Have Eyes and Resident Evil, just to mention a few, have a terribly similar segment and concept; disaster strikes and they all spread out and die one by one.
What annoys me about these movies is that it's always the same. Why can't a horror movie contain a group of people that don't suicide or freak out? I've never been attacked by a vampire myself, but I really don't think I would have ran towards the bastard! Bearing this in mind, I never really enjoyed my time in the movie theater. The blood was overdone and the screeches from the vampires was a pain in the ass. The acting, the violence, the cutting (the scenes)and even the dialogs were OK, but for God's sakes! We've seen it all before! The movie was very hyped up and unfortunately I expected so much more when I went to see it. Too commercialized and mainstream for my taste.
I would have given it a 5, but since the actors (and especially Josh Hartnett) did such a good job, I think a weak 6/10 is in order.