Rise: Blood Hunter (2006)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 10
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 1
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A woman who joins the undead against her will seeks vengeance against the ghouls who transformed her in this thriller. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a journalist who becomes acquainted with a group of beautiful but doomstruck partiers while following a story, led by the charismatic Bishop (James D'Arcy). While Sadie is taken with Bishop's good looks and sinister charm, she senses there's something dangerous about him, but it's not until she wakes up in the city morgue that she learns his secret --
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Lucy Liu
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Michael Chiklis
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Carla Gugino
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James D'Arcy
Bishop -
Samaire Armstrong
Jenny -
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Nick Lachey
Dwayne -
Marilyn Manson
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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (10) | DVD (1)
Many scenes are set in dark parking lots and dirty city streets, but you sense the locations were chosen because they were inexpensive. There is some pleasure to be had counting continuity mistakes.
Top Critic[Director] Gutierrez sustains a heightened mood of sex and violence that, without breaking new ground, entertains in the way Gothic flicks do: a combination of cheap thrills and a good old-fashioned crusade against evil.
You can thank a capable cast led by the estimable Lucy Liu, and work by writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez that succeeds in making the formulaic seem fresh.
Lucy Liu is always welcome on my screen, an actress who marries intelligence with feminine mystique, bundled with a dry wit and the ability to make action roles credible.
Torturous vampire bloodbath is a waste for all.
A tedious Blade rip-off. No suspense or scares, but lots of boredom.
While Rise: Blood Hunter isn't a terrible film, it's a predictable one.
far from perfect, but it's better than most direct-to-video horror you'll find out there. Heck, it's better than some of the theatrical releases we've seen this year
...a far more effective piece of work than one might've expected...
It's a blood-red affair thrown together in a dash, a little number that will ultimately get the same kind of treatment from audiences as it did from those who made it: something you might cue up in the DVD player on a whim and forget just as easily.
A dry and dreary little affair, one that's almost shamefully beholden to B-flicks that are a lot more energetic and a lot less intent on being taken so seriously.
Rise is middling, but not by doing things the wrong way. It's not wild enough.
Mix Blade, a dash of Point Blank, and one of the worst movies you could imagine, and that's pretty close to capturing the experience of viewing Rise: Blood Hunter.
There are worse things than waking up in a morgue. Like, say, waking up and realizing there's another hour of Rise: Blood Hunter to go.
I wasn't expecting much from director/writer Sebastian Gutierrez, considering his last writing effort was the dismal "Snakes on a Plane." But in "Rise: Blood Hunter" he offers absolutely nothing new in terms of vampire stories if not a lush noirish atmosp
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