An average movie

I wasn’t really expecting much from this flick but since there was a pretty cool cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Apparently, during the whole 'Twilight' frenzy, there was actually another book adaptation dealing with vampires and teenagers but it was eventually barely noticed. It is too bad because there were actually many things to enjoy here : some cool visuals with some nice details, some fun characters and a really good cast (John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Ray Stevenson, Ken Watanabe, Salma Hayek, Orlando Jones, Willem Dafoe, Jane Krakowski). I especially enjoyed John C. Reilly who gave here another really neat performance. However, I was still not really blown away by the whole thing. Indeed, the story was honestly rather messy. Basically, there were too many characters, too many storylines and too many intrigues and the whole thing was, as a result, still rather half-baked. You could feel that it came from a book where they probably fully developped all these elements whereas, here, it was all rather rushed. Anyway, to conclude, it was nothing great whatsoever but it was still a fairly enjoyable flick and it is worth a look, especially if you like vampire flicks but cannot stand 'Twilight'.