Could've been so much better...

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2008)

The makers of this film focus WAY too much on their cool backdrops of the destroyed New York.
The story, background, characters, motivations... actually, everything else, is totally lost.
It's like a Roland Emmerich film. But with a slightly better script. Can't say anything else about the acting, though, since Will Smith was in ID4 too. :-) Overall, you just sit and wait until the movie starts. But it never does. Instead you are invited to watch panorama shot after panorama shot of a nicely destroyed and digitally enhanced New York City. That's it.
Nothing happens, and nothing is shown. We don't see any character development, we don't see any story.
Okay, there is a story here, but it's thinner than a 2-minute short-film. It's about a virus that created vampires and now Smith has to find a cure. That's the story and that's the script too! You will NOT see anything else than that. If you know the story - you know EXACTLY what is going to happen - no surprises here at all.
It's not bad made - it's just boring. It's actually very very nice effects, if you deduct the awfully boring and not-so-well-done vampires/monsters/whatever.
There are two scenes in this film: one with Smith's family and one with Smith in the future (present). We flashback to the family-scene now and then, and go back to the present. None of the scenes have any motion, nothing happens in them. It's like if you are watching two still-photos and flick between them for one and a half hour.
Fortunatly, the destroyed New York is so well done that it isn't boring to watch this film. It's like watching a documentary of New York in the future, with the sound constantly from Shrek. (You'll understand that one when you watch the film.) Overall, an Emmerich-kind-of-film with no point and no script. But nice backdrops. It's more a painting than a film.
6/10