Ethan Hawke in Daybreakers

Daybreakers throws us into the year 2019, with an opening credit sequence littered with signs like, “School Zone 2AM – 3AM” and toothpaste ads for fangs. With all that pastiche out of the way, the movie then really settles into its groove of presenting a “believable” futuristic world, where a vampire virus has taken over all but a small handful of humans. The remaining humans are suspended and subsequently drained, by the civilized, dapperly dressed vamps. Blood is on the verge of running out, however, and that’s where the conflict arises. (more…)