30 Days of Night is about what happens when vampires realize there are inhabited places in Alaska where night lasts a long time. Both the comic and the movie start with the sheriff arresting a disturbed stranger who foretells the coming of the vampires. Of course, no one heeds the warnings and the town of Barrow is soon invaded by the evil undead. It is up to the Sheriff and a small group of townsfolk to outwit and defeat the vampires before they all wind up as a personal blood bank.
I was never a huge fan of the graphic novel this is based on. Ben Templesmith's art was just too dark and murky to follow what was going on. The writing by Steve Niles was fine, I just couldn't deal with the art. The movie might have almost the opposite problem. It devolves into an action movie of Josh Hartnett fighting and blowing stuff up while some pretty well designed vampires pose all around him. There is no real flair to the storytelling but the movie looks pretty enough. It doesn't go as dark as the source material (both figuratively and literally) but it is fairly faithful.
I know lots of people who love this movie but it didn't do anything for me. Neither did the graphic novel and it is pretty highly acclaimed so, your mileage may vary.
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