30 Days Of Night [Blu-ray]
by David Slade
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Actor: Danny Huston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Joel Tobeck, Jr. Mark Boone, Nathaniel LeesDirector: David Slade
Brand: Sony
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Digital Sound, DTS Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Reviews of 30 Days Of Night [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Skip it ...
Summary: 1 Stars
Before I saw '30 Days ...' I was really excited for it when I learned that it was going to be directed by David Slade. I'd previously seen the film 'Hard Candy' (with a stellar Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson) and was looking forward to seeing what an intelligent director such as himself would do with a vampire movie. I always thought it was encouraging to see film-makers try and branch out and do something different.
At its core, the general concept for the film is also one that I found interesting. Basically a brood of vampires descend on a northern Alaskan where, in the winter, night lasts a month. There hasn't been a really good vampire film in awhile and I thought '30 Days ...' had the set-up to be pretty good.
I was horribly disappointed that the film fails on almost every level.
For all the talent that's involved here, I was surprised that this was such a "stupid" film. Unfortunately, that disappointment extends even down to the concept, which I was originally so excited about. In hindsight, given the thick of this information age we live in (where telecommunications, cell phones, email, text messages, etc dominate our lives) I could never really buy into the idea that this town was just completely cut off from the outside world. Looking back, if it were up to me (and it's not) I'd have made the suggestion that this would work better as a period piece. Setting everything in the 1800's or even the early 1900's, for example, would make it easier to buy into the idea that the town was completely isolated for the winter.
The script is a total disaster from front to back. In my opinion, more then anything else, for the concept that was laid out to be successful, '30 Days ...' had to accomplish just three tasks.
1. Especially in light of the title, you absolutely HAD TO SEE a believable passage of one month's time.
2. You had to be able to get to know the characters that were trapped and left as survivors.
3. To later appreciate the cat-and-mouse game being played between the vampires and the towns-people, you HAD to have a general idea of how the town was laid out.
That lack of an understanding of the geography of the town is frustrating because we never seen to have any clear idea of how difficult it would be to get from one point to another. When the survivors are talking about changing locations, are they talking about a point that's right next door, or completely across town? I would have fixed this with a single-shot pan with the camera (a la the classic opening of 'Touch of Evil') in the beginning of the film to let the viewer know what's where. Maybe pass over the town in a helicopter in the opening ...
Worse though, is the complete lack of any sense of time. This would be a difficult hurdle to jump over for this film, since there isn't any rising or setting of the sun. Everything in the movie feels like it was taking place over a couple of hours though, not days. For example, there never seems to be a concern over supplies or food, there's surprisingly little tension in the group, and outside of a half-arsed looking beard here or there, nobody looks as if they hadn't shaved, showered or changed their clothes. Without a genuine sense of the passage of time, it takes a mountain of the tension and sense of dread off the situation these characters are facing.
Speaking of characters, outside of Melissa George and Josh Hartnett, there's virtually zero character development here at all. I can tell you, with absolute honesty, that (not including the above) I can't recall the name of one person that lived in Barrow. This again, takes any of the emotional impact off a scene such as the vampire siege. If we don't know who the characters are that are being killed, how much do we really care?
Although they're certainly not done any favors with the script, the performances here are all bland at best and awful at worst. The only exception, for me, was the Renfield-like harbinger that comes to the town. Even his character doesn't make any sense though. If your film's vampires are going to be portrayed as a feral group of animals, that's fine. But why then, would anyone aspire to join them? These aren't the romantic Bram Stoker-type vamps, these are what amounts to a pack of wild dogs.
I'm sorry to say that nobody decided to rise to the occasion on this one. Although it's well-shot (the Blu-Ray version looks amazing), the whole film's a complete mess. It gets my lowest possible recommendation.
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