A few thoughts: A little too joyless and meandering for its own good, this movie plays out like a post-apocalyptic zombie vampire film that was directed by Terence Malick. This probably would have worked better, but with the weak intermittent narration used to fill in the viewers on information they could see for themselves, it comes off as really lame and too self-serving for the subject matter. "Show don't tell" is one of those phrases that gets thrown around a lot when it comes to film, but this movie feels the need to show and then tell you to remind you of what you just saw, in case you were too dumb to decipher what you just looked at. You only needed to show us, guys. This should have been less dramatic, and was instead an ultimately pointless movie, hitting all the same notes as superior vampire/zombie movies that knew when to have fun, or when to allow the audience to determine what might be going through the characters heads without outright explaining it to us. It has its moments, but never really stands on its own as anything particularly memorable or meaningful.
I dunno, people who watch zombie movies and think "hey, this would be better if they called them vampires instead"? It's not bad, but it's not a vampire movie. Seriously.
My grade: D+
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