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Currently movie vampires are beautiful, seductive, and opulent. Well, most of them, anyway.
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Things are a bit different in “Blood: The Last Vampire,” adapted from a gorgeously animated, plot-thin anime. It’s a fast-moving, gory flick with plenty of vampires and swords, but it also suffers from a cluttered storyline (what’s the point of the Elder again?) and a predictable plot twist at the end. Jeon Ji-hyun makes a brilliant dhampiric anti-heroine, though.
As the movie opens, we see a mysterious young girl, Saya (Jun), on a train. When the lights go out, she savagely attacks a man at the other end of the train with a sword. Turns out he’s a “bloodsucker.”
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Half-vampire Saya works for the mysterious Council, and a kindly man-in-black named Michael — but only until they find the vampire overlord Onigen. When people start dying on an American army base, she has to go undercover at the base high school. Unfortunately the general’s daughter Alice (Allison Miller) sees Saya slaughtering a couple of vampires in the school gym, and later wanders into a vampire bar. She’s as bright as a smashed lightbulb.
And some of the people working for the Council are determined to kill anyone who interferes in their work — including Alice’s father, General McKee. Alice ends up on a desperate road trip with Saya, trying to dodge the malevolent vampires that are tracking her new buddy. But Onigen is tracking them now, and it’s becoming very personal. Cue a Big Reveal of epic clicheness about Onigen and Saya.
“Blood: The Last Vampire” is changed in many ways from the original OAV, such as Saya’s background and her being a dhampir. The whole second half is basically invented by writer Chris Chow — complete with a rosy-eyed look at Saya’s youth — while preserving the bleak, dimly-lit look that the anime had.
Unfortunately, the first half is messy — there are too many characters (the Elder doesn’t DO anything!) and plot elements (Vietnam war criticism from a VAMPIRE?) that feel randomly inserted. Fortunately director Chris Nahon chops away all the deadwood in the latter half of the movie, and gives the visuals a surreal beauty — bleak rainy streets, misty forests, and a wuxia-style climax full of fire, water, blood and floating veils.
While the first action scene almost gave me a seizure (slow-mo! FAST! Slow-mo! FAST!), the splattery fight scenes become cooler later on: Saya smashing through buildings, slicing enemies apart, and dueling with a flying vampire on a rickety bridge. And the vampires are wonderfully ghastly — bat-winged, fanged, slimy-skinned monstrosities who splatter dark blobby blood. Also, two words: Vampire. NINJAS.
Jeon Ji-hyun/Gianna Jun is absolutely stunning in this role — she jumps, kicks, spins, slashes, and infuses her character with a sense of hollow loneliness that nothing can heal. And she plays a very different Saya in the flashbacks from four hundred years ago, when her innocence was shattered by her own vampiric nature. Miller does a decent performance as the whiny Alison, and the stunning Koyuki does a pretty good job as the malevolent Onigen.
“Blood: The Last Vampire” suffers from a ragged first half, but it tightens up into a much more beautiful and memorable movie in the second. If nothing else, watch it for Jeon Ji-hyun.
When the animated version of this film first came out on DVD in 2002, I bought it right away. The animation at the time was amazing and beautiful compared to other anime released around the same time. The only gripe I had about it was that it was short, left us with a HUGE cliffhanger at the end and many questions unanswered. For years I had been waiting for them to make at least a sequel. My prayers were answered with the 50-episode series, Blood+. Instead of continuing the movie, Blood+ was revamped to fit a thicker story and plot. Needless to say, I was very happy with it.
So what was going through my mind when I saw a bootleg version of this live-action movie? “Nah, dont expect too much but just watch it since you have nothing better to do today”. I’m an anime lover and infatuated with the Japanese culture as a whole, but 95% of their action movies have disappointed me, so I didnt expect much to begin with. As soon as I popped this in and saw the first few minutes, I thought “Wow, when was this made? Early 90’s?”. As the movie went along, I noticed a number of scenes from the animated version were integrated into the movie. I was very impressed that they did that on top of expanding on the story and action.
The action was absolutely great, but you have to either appreciate the anime versions or “kung-fu” movies to begin with. If you’re not into this genre, don’t bother wasting your time looking for a deep, twisting plot. This is purely entertainment. Especially now that the Twilight series has taken the world by storm(at least in America), you wont find any Vampire/Horror movie with an “original” plot anymore. I’m also a fan of horror movies, but the genre has become dull.
Bottom line: Watch this movie if you have somewhat interest in ANIME or KUNG-FU type films. If not, don’t waste your time.
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