Not as good as I was hoping it would be

Rating: 5/10 (28 November 2012)

I read the book and enjoyed it so I had high hopes for this movie. I thought the premise was clever and fairly original and if had been handled correctly it could have been so much more than it was.
Unfortunately, I found the movie to be adequate but nothing special. I thought the actors did a good job with what they had to work with but there was just something lacking. I saw this in 3D and I very quickly got tired of all the sparkly little dust motes and bits of pollen that were floating through the air in virtually every scene, not to mention the copious amounts of blood splatter. I know, I know, its a vampire flick, of course there's going to be blood splatter. But when it's used as much as it was in this movie, it loses its impact. A little would have gone a long way.