Blood: The Last Vampire, as a live-action comic book full of sword fighting martial art and plenty of blood splatter. Parts reminded me of Kill Bill in its anime-style approach to the violence, with a lot of throwback old school Kung-Fu films. But where the blood falls flat in the next great action movie, people, demons and vampires, like a female version of Blade, is in his silly characters, uneven performances, slovenly pace, and crappy CG effects. But it is a good time? Yes. Yes it does.
It is a war that has been going on for thousands of years between humans and demons, that only an elite group of people known as the Council know. In 1970 Tokyo, Japan, the Council of the only effective weapon in the demons that I is an apparent “half vampire”, the ability to pay the bills in the Department of demons to kill. I worked with the Council, because they help her pursue and kill Onigkeit (Koyuki), the oldest and most powerful of demons. I spent the last tip, where is Onigkeit leads them into the Yakota U.S. Air Force Base, where the general’s daughter Alice (Allison Miller), I stumble on war and tags, because it has nothing to lose. Sword fights, gallons CG fake blood and a pile of dead demons themselves.
Although I have never seen the original anime movie, blood, and I still enjoyed just I (Jeon Ji-Hyeon) cut through the landscape in a series of entertaining action sequences. There is something about a chick in a traditional school uniform tillers from demon heads and other body parts, while jumping through the air that I am very entertaining. All cool action helped me see past the horribly wrong CG-blood for all the indebted sword or bullet wound. If you are easily distracted by poor visual effects, you can use your hands away from the blood. The lame accuse impact on a few of the demons, a cross between the character from a cartoon and a video game, but similar to other big Hollywood films like Underworld World.
In terms of history, blood was surprisingly complex and complicated. I did what for the most part, but it was one of the things that was short ton glossed over longer necessary to explain that. For example, the title talks about the last vampire, and yet it was a vampire in this film? They openly discuss demons, but I do not know whether the term “vampire” ever came. I can only assume that I was a vampire, because of their addiction to drink before jars blood, yet she was able to walk around in daylight and see their reflection in the mirror, but we never see them vampire teeth. Although there were some explanation of their origin, they concentrate mainly on their education to a demon killer. The ins and outs of their so-called vampirism was briefly mentioned and never fully explained.
The performances were uneven, at least. Some players gave it everything, and others were simply too over-the-top and dramatic to the point where it’s almost ridiculous. Miller’s, since the general’s daughter fell into the category of dramatic, quite hysterically screaming and uttering some of the dumb lines ever said on the big screen. Fortunately Koyuki’s sexy and sinister take on Onigkeit was spot on, as Ji-Hyeon, the representation of the ego. She had a touch of innocence to the badass persona of her that was perfect for the role, and a heroic figure that I root for.
Blood: The Last Vampire is a mixed bag product: a low-budget action-horror film with a ton of effects of the second sentence, the product in the form of stylized action sequences, plenty of blood splatter and a kick-ass female lead . When director Chris Nahon would focus more on developing the characters and the tightening of the script, rather than make every effort to fake blood effects, it would have been a better film. And while most of the action sequences have been exceptionally fun to see the final confrontation between Onigkeit and I was not nearly as epic as it should have been. If you like Blade and Underworld, and you are looking to kill some time, then the blood is not a bad way to go. As long as you can go to the sloppiness special effects and overly dramatic acting.
