My thoughts exactly. I was really disappointed with it. It felt like at every turn they were hinting at an interesting back story but refusing to deliver. You know there was some interesting history behind this particular band of vampires, they made a lot of references to it. They obviously had their own culture and beliefs as well ('what can be broken, is broken'), but we were never given the opportunity to know anything about their history or anything.
Also, for as much time as they spent just hanging out hiding and being scared there was absolutely no character development whatsoever even though there were a lot of hints about interesting backgrounds to the characters as well. They even chose to show us the slow, boring poorly executed suspense parts while much more interesting and gruesome things were happening off screen that we only learned about after the fact (if you saw the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about). It was like they wanted to make a thoughtful, suspenseful, horror movie, but only knew how to make a shallow slasher flick and the end result was a shallow, boring, wannabe suspense movie. Had they committed to either option it could have been a good movie, muddling their way through a compromise between the two resulted in exactly the sort of result you'd expect.
I think the movie was all the more disappointed because the premise has so much promise. For pretty much as long as I've understood the concept of vampires I've thought a story putting them in the extreme North could be really interested. For a vampire, what could be more attractive than perpetual night? But they just had to go and ruin it for me...
[Edit: Ooh, now if the server is busy you get an alert and have the chance to just wait and hit submit again. Neat!]
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