"Daybreakers" *** (out of four): I'm as surprised as anyone, but this clever vampire movie from the Spierig Brothers proves the genre still has some bite left in it.

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If you're going to make a vampire movie nowadays, you better have a gimmick. "Daybreakers", the latest in the blood-sucking genre, proposes the following twist: everyone's a vampire already. And they've all gone back to their normal routines - CEOs, advertisers, car washers, stock brokers. They're all still at it, and they're all now vampires. They even retain their 9-5 hours, thanks to a series of underground "subwalks" and tinted windows. The problem, however, is that humans are all but extinct. So, with a dwindling food supply, and no viable blood substitute on the horizon, the future is looking bleak for the vamps. It's all fairly clever and, I never thought I'd be saying this but, it works out to be a good, new vampire movie.

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