Impressed with its awfulness

Rating: 1/10 (27 April 2013)

I sat there waiting for something to pull me in...and waited... and waited... and then caught myself rolling my eyes at some supposedly heart-wrenching moment. From that point on, I just played with my phone while the story ground to a sludgy conclusion.
The plot is enough for maybe 30 mins. The rest of the film is padded with ridiculously wooden actors supposedly wrestling with intense emotions. We know this because they say so, in flat, deadpan voices, and kiss occasionally. They certainly don't display any convincing emotional realism!
Actually the only character who showed anything like watchable acting was the evil Victoria. The contrast with the others was amazing. I've seen the heroine and Pattison in other things where they were better, so can only assume that the directing was the problem, not the actors.
The thing that held my interest most was the ridiculousness of the vampire myth in this film. They move around in daylight, but can't go out in the sun (so the hero spends a weekend in Florida, hiding from the rays. Stupid, eh?). They have absurd colour changing contact lenses (sorry, eyes), but no one notices - or thinks that an adoptive family maybe shouldn't have so many resemblances? They all wear wigs, or spend so much time and money on their hair that it must swallow half their lives (sorry, deaths).
I'm struggling to think of another film that was this bad. I think only 'Mortal Combat' and 'Rambo 3' come close.