Daybreakers has a very interesting premise that comes off half-baked. Everything seems slapped together and rushed. This movie should have embraced the horror/sci-fi aspect more - it's too political for its own good. It was entertaining, but it could have been much, much better.

Daybreakers (2009) is an above average vampire film. It's set in the future, which now is less than a year away lol, in 2019. 95% of the population has become vampires, and what's remaining of the human population must hide out or be captured and farmed for blood. But the vampires are facing a big problem: they're running out of human blood and are scrambling to come up some sort of substitute. Ethan Hawke's character is in charge of this at a blood supply corporation headed up by Sam Neil. Their attempts to try to come up with a viable substitute keep on failing until eventually they're faced with vampires who are turning into horrific creatures due to a lack of blood. The film really gets going when Ethan Hawke joins this group of humans. I'm not giving away spoilers so I elaborate on what happens when he teams up with them. I enjoyed this film for the most part, it features talented actors who deliver good performances, nice visuals, and the pacing is well done. It's not perfect, but it is entertaining and well done. 8/10.

A civilized world in which most of the population is of Vampires is a really cool idea, and when the movie starts, you will be wowed by the world building for about 10 minutes but then you will notice a shift from the awesome world into more stuff which is not related to the awesome civilized world but more on the side of wild things which is something you can also see in other movies. So just because this movie does not focus on that cool world for the most part, this movie is just OK! So just keep your expectations lowered and you might just enjoy this one.

The score on IMDb, 6.5 at the time, fooled me to watch this one and I really wasted almost 2 hours.First the good points in the movie: The acting is overall good, especially Sam Niel in the bad guy role and also Ethan Hawk's brother.But apart from acting everything else is bellow average: the script is schematic and paired with unimaginative direction produce a movie that is uninteresting to watch. You have seen all this before numerous times and you haven't enjoyed it either.It is really a poor movie, do yourself a favor and spend your time watching something else.