In Let me in, a picked on boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is struggling to deal with parents' separating and at the same time he is being relentlessly bullied at school.
He eventually meets Abby (Chloe Moretz) near where he lives, and starts to be open and talk with her.
At first the girl does not want to be friends for some reason, but the fact that both are living lonely lives eventually makes the two form a bond with each other.
The boys' problem is that he just wants to be left alone, Abby has much deeper troubles than Owen though.
She has to have blood in order to survive, which is why she has her assistant (Richard Jenkins) who helps her get human blood.
Fans of Let the Right One in will probably be able to point out every scene similar in the remake.
While the director does not show any real originality (which is one reason you should see the original movie "Let the Right One in" before you see the remake) the Reeves is able to keep the original story's emotions and its imagery.
The film very clearly demonstrates the disgust of bullying, as our main character fights the horrible nature of bullies as well as the uncaring attitude of adults that allow such bullying to continue.
Let Me In also is able to capture the growing friendship between two loners who are both in need of some kind of bond.
A great deal of well deserved credit has to go out to our two main characters and of course the director for making this film great (though not as good as the original).
Of course the horror theme is not lost in this film, like it was in the original; the remake is able to understand the human horror surrounding the vampire, allowing its guilty need for humans to stand together with the separated lack of sympathy for those that surround the vampire.
Give props to this film as well for completely avoiding using ridiculous Twilight elements.
Unlike other vampire movies, Abby doesn't have any type of romantic element in her life.
She lives isolated in complete darkness unable to have a true friendship or bond with anyone, living kind of like a monster with surviving being the only goal she has.
She has an extreme dislike for herself because of her nature that hate however; comes directly from pain and loneliness instead of from over-inflated selfishness.
If vampire movies are to continue, looking at this film to get ideas from would be a great idea for future vampire horror films.
One of the only problems with this film is that fact that lies in the fact that it is almost a complete copy of the original film, scene for scene.
It copies the original film so closely that there shouldn't have even been a reason to remake it in the first place (with the exception of hoping to make money with it).
Originality is definitely not this films strong element and it only manages to turn a very good film into a decent film, of course a decent film is still worth watching.