POSITIVES
If you’re looking for a nostalgic, straight to Blockbuster video, B-movie level storytelling, that is a human monster creature feature to pass the time, then this might fit that bill.
The best thing this movie does is how it depicts those cool vampire powers.
Jared Leto is good as Michael Morpheus. Matt Smith is great hamming it up as Milo. Al Madrigal brings the funny. The cast is generally good.
It’s not a super long movie and squishes in as much plot as it needs with its 144 minutes runtime.
I suppose I’m surprised in myself that I find this as a positive, but hardly anybody seems nonplussed with the fact that this guy has vampire powers. Why should they be? They live in a world where people have super powers. I give the movie some kudos for accepting that fact.
NEGATIVES
This is your basic, unexciting, average, and ho-hum movie.
Dumb screenplay writing. Illogical moments. Contrived manipulative plot turns.
Lame third act. I know I appreciate it not being a 150 minutes superhero-fest, but that’s it?! That’s all it’s going to offer? Then it tosses in those two mind-boggling mid-credits sequences?!
The mish-mash messy looking CG action beats showed promise. That promise it didn’t quite reach.
Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, and Tyrese Gibson deserve better than what they were given to do here.
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