Clique and overdone, but not terrible

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2004)

The movie tried much too hard to be cool. The relentless black, tight leather, the constant blue tint of the cinematography, and the total lack of humor made this movie rather 2-dimensional. Variety is the spice of life and this movie was bland. However, at least they did pick an appealing visual style to overuse--after all, I would rather look at stoic people running around in black than country bumpkins running around in trousers and straw hats. I also thought it was odd that the movie saw vampires in the light it did. Normally, they are portrayed as guiltless killers, but this bunch acted appalled at the idea of drinking human blood. In my opinion, this was somewhat of a cop-out because the movie used all the nice aspects of vampires (their cool look and brooding style), but conveniently left out all of the more morally troublesome aspects. This seemed a little cheap to me.