Blood: The Last Vampire
Directed by:
Chris NahonScreenplay:
Chris ChowCinematography:
Hang Sang PoonComposer:
Clint MansellCast:
Ji-hyun Jun, Liam Cunningham, JJ Feild, Koyuki Katō, Michael Byrne, Colin Salmon, Yasuaki Kurata, Allison Miller, Jamal Duff, Chris Nahon, Khary Payton (more)Plots(1)
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 17-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old “halfling.” Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil matriarch of all vampires. Using her superhman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base’s general that Saya learns that her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection… (Pathé Distribution UK)
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The vampire genre has been getting one slap after another in recent years. First the degrading Twilight, then Seagal’s awful Against the Dark, and now this digital borefest that doesn’t even look like a movie in its key moments. Anyone who hates scenes where the hero falls down a 100 metre ravine with a truck, then shakes off the dust and carries on should avoid this. Schoolgirl Saya kicks more ass than Chuck Norris, but Nahon’s asexual direction turns what in theory should be a fun splatterfest into a boring farce that after 30 minutes makes you feel you’ve been watching for two hours. One of those films that I can’t trash with a Boo! but that I still regret watching.
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I was still hopeful at the beginning – yeah, it'll be okay, or at least average. Bullshit, with mushrooms. It got boring. A lot. The main heroine, her American friend, all the characters, were two-dimensional with stupid dialogue. The best dialogue was in Japanese (probably mostly because I only half understood it...). Plus by the middle of the movie I couldn't take it anymore and kept fast-forwarding. Sometimes by ten minutes. Surprisingly, I didn't miss anything. The graphics are like something out of pulp game at a cheap bookstore. Nice movie... If you watch it anyway, watch it with Czech dubbing – the gold standard.
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"Blood: The Last Vampire" is not a film that is so terribly bad that it should be spoken of as garbage, it would be a shame to dismiss it like that, but there are simply a lot of things missing for me. Actually, everything except the Chinese aesthetics of the fights. Especially the final fight with Onigen is truly beautiful and I really enjoyed it. It's like everything before that was just a build-up to this finale.
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