Gianna Jun,
Koyuki,
Michael Byrne,
Colin Salmon,
Allison Miller
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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,... read more
Directed by: Chris Nahon
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Keywords:
action,
anime,
fight scenes,
live action,
action scenes,
anime version,
Kill Bill ,
Gianna Jun ,
Crouching Tiger ,
Chris Nahon
DVD Release Date: October 20, 2009
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November 12, 2009Awesome carnage and fight scenes have no idea how close to the anime it is at all.
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October 14, 2010This was a really good attempt at a very cool story. The fight scenes were really quite fun to watch. The girl that played Saya did a bang-up job. The computer generated scenes could have been better, and the scenes with the flying demoms made me kind of snicker. I have to say, t... read more
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June 17, 2010A warrior vampire in 1970s Japan finally tracks down the demon who murdered her father she has been seeking for hundreds of years. Obviously trying very hard to trade on the popularity of Crouching Tiger and its ilk, Blood: The Last Vampire actually feels far more like Blade or U... read more
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June 13, 2010I liked the fight scenes. Trying to figure out who was the bad guys and who was the good guys was quite difficult. Maybe if I watch it three times.
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February 8, 2010A good story for a film, based on the Anime film....from what I saw almost scene for scene the same? Sadly this is ruined by really dodgy CGI for the blood and gore. Some of the creature design is not so good either, and you'd barely known it had a vampire in it. It has a couple ... read more
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January 17, 2010It contains good martial arts and cool storytelling, and it turns the vampire genre on its ear. This film based on the popular anime movie is good regardless of bad CGI in the fighting scenes when Saya, a heroine - half-human and half-vampire vampire hunter - sort of a female ver... read more
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January 16, 2010Fantastic! Almost just like the Anime/Manga version... Very much like Blade, Bloodrayne and Underworld.
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October 25, 2009A decent but unexciting live action reworking of the original animated film (far superior) and subsequent anime series. For those familiar with the material, it's a frustrating experience. There clearly wasn't enough budget to keep the stylistic visuals consistent throughout, a... read more
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October 24, 2009Great cinematography, dazzling choreography and absolutely nothing else. An embarrassing live action version of another Japanese anime plagued by cringe-worthy dialogue, acting and CG.
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July 30, 2009This is some flashy stylish high octane shit hehe a nice combination of Eastern ideas and Western help provides us with this Manga story brought to the big screen in live action.
To be honest there isn't really anything here you haven't seen before, it has a kind of 'Blade' feel ... read more
Critic Reviews
July 10, 2009
Michael Ordoņa, Chicago Tribune
July 10, 2009
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Watch True Blood, Let the Right One In or Twilight instead. Or wait for Thirst or New Moon or Daybreakers or ... Full Review
July 10, 2009
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Not only isn't the new effort up to the standards of the anime, it's bloody awful by any standard. Full Review
July 10, 2009
Dan Zak, Washington Post
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.
July 10, 2009
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Suffers from abusive close-ups, repetitive fight sequences and uninspired demon design. Full Review
July 10, 2009
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
If that sounds kind of hot, don't get your hopes up. Full Review
July 9, 2009
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Don't let the subtitle of Blood: The Last Vampire alarm you. The finale of this tedious piece of Asian-ish action-schlock based on a popular anime series implies an intention to make more. One was ple... Full Review
July 9, 2009
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Blood: The Last Vampire might be described as Kill Bill crossed with Buffy, only that would make it sound like more than the slapdash, thrill-less dud that it is. Full Review
July 9, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This isn't a great movie. But it's sincere as an entertainment, it looks good, it's atmospheric. Full Review
July 8, 2009
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
Unexciting, incoherent, lamely acted, and carelessly written. Full Review
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