With: John C Reilly, Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, Salma Hayek, Willem Dafoe, Ken Watanabe, Patrick Fugit
Plot: Two best friends join two opposing factions of vampires. We follow the friend with the good vampire (Reilly), who works in a travelling freak show.
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A very laboured-feeling origin film, with typical training montages and a seriously miscast Reilly over-enunciating his way through cardboard exposition and back-story. Worse even than him is Massoglia in the lead, barely even seeming awake, and Hutcherson trying too hard as the especially poorly written best friend who turns to the dark side. The story is one big explanation and build up, and the climax is weak beyond belief. A non-starter in pretty much all ways though it has its pleasures here and there, such as the Cronenberg-esque circus creaks, Dafoe at his hammy best as a classic vampire, and a great animated title sequence at the beginning.
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