VAMPIRES

A Filmfreak 6,5/10

Directed by John Carpenter
Screenplay by John Steakley, Don Jakoby
Cast includes James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith

Basic plot outline: Jack Crow and his vampire slaying team are up against the original and most powerful vampire Valek, who seeks to become a daywalker and conquer the world.

Review: Being an advent vampire flick fan, i immediately raced to see this new John Carpenter release...

Ignoring the fact that it contained none of that dark and gothic atmosphere that usually draws me to vampire movies...here is what i felt...

Five words kept running through my head... "This is a bad music video..."

Dissolves and slow mo's totally disregarded the space time continuum (do i watch back to the future too often?).   Not only that, but they were irritating, and made the narrative appear weak. Almost as if the filmmakers concluded that this method covered up holes in the script.

Yet it had definite structure, and I will give credit to the cinematography which was simply wonderful. The editing lacked any true sense of cinematic narrative, and a lot of the film is a rip off of Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs shot of people walking and "looking cool"

So is it worth going to see? Not a bad movie choice... on a Tuesday night at half price ;)