 No one expects vampire movies to get great reviews and those for 30 Days of Night are no exception. At least it can be said that the movie receives some mild ones. Roger Ebert's in the Chicago Sun-Times is typical. It is, he writes, "a better-than-average example of the genre. ... I award the movie two and a half stars because it is well-made, well-photographed and plausibly acted, and is better than it needs to be." Scott Bowles in USA Today has even nicer things to say about the film, writing that director David Slade "keeps the action moving, the cliches at arm's length and the genre infused with new blood." Of course, there are plenty of other critics who take the movie by the throat. "30 Days of Night makes you feel the cold ... and feel the fangs," writes Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, "but it also makes you feel like 30 days is a pretty long time." And Kyle Smith concludes in the New York Post: "The movie approaches the final scene with a straight face, but it left the audience giggling spasmodically. This script probably should have gone all the way and thrown in a few quips: If your movie is a joke, at least be intentionally funny." |
