November 4, 2012
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MOVIE REVIEW: Blood the Last Vampire (2009)
GENRE: Japanese Supernatural Martial Art/Horror
SUMMARY: In world where demon vampires are at war with the human race, Saya, daughter of a famous samurai demon hunter, searches a Vietnam-era Tokyo Air Force base for an underground army of vampires. Though she is half-demon herself, Saya seeks out revenge against the demon master Onigen, the one who took all her loved ones from her.
REVIEW: As a remake of the 2000 anime (which was AMAZING) by the producer of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" I thought this might be pretty cool. It was a let down. It lacks all of what made the original awesome. The computer animation they used nonstop wasn't good and stood out. The fight scenes where WAY crazy, but with no feeling or grace. They added an American main character (the base general's daughter) to work with Saya and she was boring, annoying, and way too randomly strong to stand next to a 400-year old vampire character. I was hoping it would finish the plot where the anime left off (it was a really short anime), but anything that was good in this movie was taken from the anime and all that was added was crap. The camera shots were too random. It wasn't a horrible movie, just a bad one. Not worth watching unless you're really bored.
PLOT & WRITING: 3/10
ACTING: 4/10
DIRECTING & CINEMATOGRAPHY: 4/10
FIGHT SCENES: 5/10
OVERALL: 4/10