** possibly contains some SPOILERS ** Hearing absolutely nothing about this movie I recently got a chance to watch it and I have to admit I was slightly entertained. I would not put it in my top 10 or give it any major awards but it was definitely an enjoyable movie which showed that the vampire genre is not dead and has potential to come back, just not through this movie.
The existing plot description make it sound like you will be baffled by the plot and it will keep you on the edge of your seat, which is a half truth as you will be definitely baffled by the multiple plot lines which never go anywhere.
As someone pointed out this movie revolves around the existence of humans and "vampire like creatures" in a fictional alternate reality putting the time frame somewhere around 1930s-1950s ( I could be off ). The major story is somewhat a "film-noir"esque murder mystery with subplots of epidemics / human evolution / love.
The film stars off well enough by giving us a background on the "brotherhood" ( vampires ) and how they are trying to coexist with humans which is interesting in itself but never really develops into anything concrete.
Then we are introduced to our main villain( Leo Gregory ) and our protagonist ( Dougray Scott ) with a very well done bit of cinematography. But after that things start slipping ... rest continued at the bottom following the review ** spoilers *** To sum it up, the movie was "ok". it presented a lot of interesting ideas and i believe would have worked well if kept as a straight up murder mystery and simply focused on that plot line. But with too many interesting characters and potential subplots open up to so many different ideas there just wasn't enough of one thing to keep me interested.
I would give it a 7/10 for trying to bring back the vampire flick but the rest was very adequate and nothing to write home about.
** SPOILER ** The main characters were very shallow and this included the more interesting villain who simply "snapped" one day and decided to go on a murdering rampage to cause a conflict between the humans and the "vampires". Not very original nor interesting which is too bad because the performances were pretty good and the actors did a fine job but the sub par character development kept it from being really gripping.
The mother ( Saffron Burrows ) / daughter development seemed like an afterthought to appeal to the "Children of Men" fans. Secret society who controlled the human life was interesting but once again very underdeveloped and cliché. The love story between the vampire ( Dougray Scott ) and the human ( Saffron Burrows ) was completely unnecessary.
The whole movie seemed like it started off original and could have taken many different genres to a new level and then someone ran out of steam and just picked away at some more popular movies from this genre causing a big mish mash of unfinished plot lines.
Anyway these are my two cents.
The existing plot description make it sound like you will be baffled by the plot and it will keep you on the edge of your seat, which is a half truth as you will be definitely baffled by the multiple plot lines which never go anywhere.
As someone pointed out this movie revolves around the existence of humans and "vampire like creatures" in a fictional alternate reality putting the time frame somewhere around 1930s-1950s ( I could be off ). The major story is somewhat a "film-noir"esque murder mystery with subplots of epidemics / human evolution / love.
The film stars off well enough by giving us a background on the "brotherhood" ( vampires ) and how they are trying to coexist with humans which is interesting in itself but never really develops into anything concrete.
Then we are introduced to our main villain( Leo Gregory ) and our protagonist ( Dougray Scott ) with a very well done bit of cinematography. But after that things start slipping ... rest continued at the bottom following the review ** spoilers *** To sum it up, the movie was "ok". it presented a lot of interesting ideas and i believe would have worked well if kept as a straight up murder mystery and simply focused on that plot line. But with too many interesting characters and potential subplots open up to so many different ideas there just wasn't enough of one thing to keep me interested.
I would give it a 7/10 for trying to bring back the vampire flick but the rest was very adequate and nothing to write home about.
** SPOILER ** The main characters were very shallow and this included the more interesting villain who simply "snapped" one day and decided to go on a murdering rampage to cause a conflict between the humans and the "vampires". Not very original nor interesting which is too bad because the performances were pretty good and the actors did a fine job but the sub par character development kept it from being really gripping.
The mother ( Saffron Burrows ) / daughter development seemed like an afterthought to appeal to the "Children of Men" fans. Secret society who controlled the human life was interesting but once again very underdeveloped and cliché. The love story between the vampire ( Dougray Scott ) and the human ( Saffron Burrows ) was completely unnecessary.
The whole movie seemed like it started off original and could have taken many different genres to a new level and then someone ran out of steam and just picked away at some more popular movies from this genre causing a big mish mash of unfinished plot lines.
Anyway these are my two cents.