There are too many things wrong with this movie to list them all here. This is another book turned movie that just flopped as a movie. The fact that it would have been so easy to make it good just increases my total disappointment. The acting was pretty bad, the plot line was horrendous, and the entire feel of the movie was just a joke. In a time where the world is not interested in another stupid teen, love, vampire movie (enough of the Twilight shit already!), this just adds to the pile.
The book is great. It's a little bit of a twist on the super natural stories, though it does still have that angsty teen love element to it, it is more well done than some others recently released. There's this whole angels and demons thing, but it's different than your typical story. The people saving the world are super humans because of angel blood, and the people trying to end the world are a new age version of Nazis. They use the demons to cleanse the world of all the unpure, subpar humans/demons/half-breeds that simply do not deserve to live. And the leader behind it all is pretty damn evil, and smart! In the movie, you get a little bit of that, but the evil element gets turned into more of a joke. I love Jonathan Reese Myers, and am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in that he was following a bad script/bad director instead of just acting crazy because he could not truly pull of evil. I've seen him be evil, I was excited about his Valentine, and then I was disgusted by his performance. In fact, I was pretty disgusted by this whole movie.
Again, there is a difference between a bastardization of a book that still works, and one that turns it into a Twilight wanna-be. This movie chose the latter, and truly succeeded at it's aim of being a piece of shit. In the end, I give this a 3 out of 10, maybe the tweens will like it.
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