Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 40
Based on a classic anime series, Blood: The Last Vampire is a tedious, shoddily acted, amateurish picture that loses all charm in the transition to live-action.
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 12
Based on a classic anime series, Blood: The Last Vampire is a tedious, shoddily acted, amateurish picture that loses all charm in the transition to live-action.
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Hiroyuki Kitakubo's cult anime hit comes to life in this live-action adaptation starring Gianna Jun as Saya. Saya has been hunting demons and slaying vampires for 400 years. Now it's the 20th century, and Saya is working for a clandestine organization known only as the Council. She's the last of her kind, a half-vampire, half-human samurai dedicated to ridding the world of monsters. Now with the Vietnam War raging in the background, Saya is dispatched to an American military base to do battle
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Gianna Jun
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Koyuki
Onigen -
Michael Byrne
Elder -
Colin Salmon
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Allison Miller
Alice McKee -
Constantine Gregory
Mr. Henry -
Larry Lamb
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Yasuaki Kurata
Kato Takatora -
Liam Cunningham
Michael -
J.J. Feild
Luke -
Joey Anaya
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Khary Payton
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Liu Lei
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Masiela Lusha
Sharon -
Andrew Pleavin
Frank Nielsen
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Often-unwatchably dim.
Top CriticWatch True Blood, Let the Right One In or Twilight instead. Or wait for Thirst or New Moon or Daybreakers or ...
Not only isn't the new effort up to the standards of the anime, it's bloody awful by any standard.
This live-action update of a popular Japanese anime film from 2000 has a heart full of mythology, but its fangs are dulled by an anemic script and clumsy action sequences that are notable mostly for an excess of cheese, not blood.
The peculiar, comic-book-like computer graphics -- artful at first -- finally overtake Blood and make it look like a video game instead of a graceful, graphic martial arts movie.
Suffers from abusive close-ups, repetitive fight sequences and uninspired demon design.
The dialogue is horrible (sample exchange: "Little bitch is out of control"), the acting is worse.
This live-action remake of a well-beloved anime of the same name comes across better on the small screen than it did in the cinemas . . .
Blood: The Last Vampire could have been epic. I can't say that it sucks because for the most part it was entertaining ... in an in-one-ear and out-the-other kind of way.
... a bizarre mix of sensibilities that falls apart into a mess of cultural cues. The result is as tone deaf as the confused accents.
Feels like one of those Underworld sequels, but with a samurai-wielding Japanese schoolgirl instead of the tight leather outfits . . .
I think this is a world-class film! It contains great martial arts and great storytelling, and it turns the vampire genre on its ear.
Really, is there supposed to be any entertainment value in this thing, or is it meant to be a ponderously stupid endurance test?
So laughably awful that it easily qualifies for so-bad-it's-good status.
Despite inserting a jumble of backstory into his live-action take on an action experiment from Japanese animation studio Production I.G, director Chris Nahon captures some of the visceral thrills of the nine-year-old anime.
The best thing that can come from this film is that it will be so poorly received both by critics and audiences that it will put a damper on Hollywood's current interest in remaking anime.
As good as any Hollywood movie, which is to say it's got lousy visual effects and generic dialogue. Since we're already forgiving that anyway, there's enough engaging action to make it plenty fun and entertaining.
Slashing swords, splashing blood, and flashy CGI - not to mention a hot chick in school uniform - sound like a cool combination, but the life bleeds out of Blood: The Last Vampire long before the final reel.
If you're not familiar with this kind of live-action anime in general, Blood isn't a bad place to start, but for diehard fans it's a lot of been-there-done-that.
An stew of international genre influences that plays like a Vietnam-era cross between Blade and TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with elaborate martial arts sequences.
Ever wish for a cinematic slushie of Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the cheesiest vampire movie ever made? Welcome to Blood: The Last Vampire.
Blood: The Last Vampire feels both derivative and strangely amateurish, an awkward blend of Hong Kong-style combat set pieces and clumsy English-language dialogue scenes that verge on laughable.
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