Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

A_Different_Drummer Consider this a "one-of" an oddball film that stands out from its time and its competitors.Japan in the last few decades has developed an almost total mastery of anime but there was a price. Their live action has become wretched. Look at Rurouni Kenshin -- the cartoon series is brilliant, almost perfect. The live action a crude imitation Now is this case the live version is all I saw so maybe the review is incomplete. But this remains a fun "rainy day" film and the action/acting is just fine.Wish there were more like it

Uriah43 Having suffered a personal tragedy several hundred years ago the half-vampire, "Saya" (Gianna Jun) seeks to kill the head vampire responsible for it named "Onigen" (Koyuki). Likewise, a secret counsel, also formed hundreds of years ago, wants to kill Onigen as well and enlists the help of Saya. To gather clues about Onigen, they enroll Saya in an American high school on an air force base in Japan. Not long afterward, Saya comes to the aid of a classmate named "Alice McKee" (Allison Miller) who has been targeted by the vampires. By slaying them, Saya forces Onigen to come out of hiding to respond. Anyway, that's the basic plot of the movie and in many ways it is similar to "Blade". However the main character in this film, Gianna Jun, doesn't act like she's doing everyone a favor by performing--like Wesley Snipes did in "Blade". In that regard, not only is she a better actor but she's much better looking too. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the supporting cast , script, or any of the other assets that "Blade" had and as a result all this film has to offer is a thin plot with plentiful action. Combine that with a couple of scenes which are entirely in Japanese (with no English subtitles) and it became difficult to maintain interest at times. No doubt action fans who enjoy martial arts and sword fights will like this film. But because the dialogue and acting opportunities were so limited, the talents of Gianna Jun and Koyuki (who appeared in the movie "The Last Samurai") were never fully utilized. As a result, this film never realizes its potential.

haroldaykroyd Unfortunately Blood: The Last Vampire is a terribly bad movie that might have been better with actual funding, bankable stars, an infinitely better script and a talented director. Lacking each of those things, however, audiences are offered only a barely palatable waste of time. That it is not entirely unwatchable is the only compliment to which we could pay this film. In almost every regard, Blood: The Last Vampire hardly qualifies as a film. The screenplay is largely incomprehensible requiring the less familiar members of the audience to visibly struggle when piecing together exactly who's who, what's going on and why. You can't understand what is really happening on the screen. Part of the problem is with Saya herself, a loner by nature with whom we're supposed to sympathize. But we don't. She is too bleak, bizarre and honestly uninteresting...as a whole movie.

Polaris_DiB To be sure, I really did expect less plot from this movie than it actually had, but though surprised by the amount of character development and built narrative actually contained, it is still clear that this is a quick one-off of a much more intricate storyline, even though I have not seen the original anime. It also had surprisingly good acting, with Gianna Jun making Saya feel much older than she (the actress) obviously was, and Allison Miller actually managing to be a not annoying "What is this I don't understand!" teen. Liam Cunningham and JJ Field bite into their roles with relish, even if their characters eeeeeehhhh don't really make a whole lot of sense, and the only real disappointment is the underuse of Onigen and the underacting from Koyuki. It feels like, had this movie spent a little more time focusing on storytelling and performance and just a little less time on its set pieces, it would be a really good movie.But, let's discuss the set-pieces. This is a wire-fu martial arts movie, ultimately, and it should be credited for actually finding very unique and amazing set-pieces for the action to take place, as well as actually having them make sense. The chase over the rooftops, the battle on the precipitous truck, and Onigen's shadow world are great environments and really keep the eye dazzled while the swordplay and choreography do their trick. That said, again, now that the movie actually HAS a plot, it sort of makes the audience want more, so when a street-side brawl lasts longer than the Agent Smith burly brawl from The Matrix, it taxes patience. Worse is the CGI, which honestly hasn't been this bad since before 2005. Nahon makes a huge error by placing the CGI demons in clear view and not even bothering to try make-up or other effects. Meanwhile, the compositing on Onigen's sashes is awful, which is unfortunate considering how much the character herself has presence and grace in her better moments. A HUGE mistake is the CGI generated blood spurts, when the point is specifically made in the dialog that demon blood is different than human blood, but the viewer can never really tell the difference because it's all black spurts of globules in every case. There are missed opportunities here that I do not believe would have cost that much more if the director or possibly the producers had a little more patience.A real surprise is the score by Clint Mansell, who I did not even know in advance was the composer but definitely brought me right back to The Fountain. Mansell adds a delicious tonal quality to the movie that pulls the performances and the choreography together into the same epic mood by mixing themes from The Fountain into build-ups from The Matrix, meaning we get the feeling of epic characters struggling with their fates in a world of illusions before the dialog even tells us so.Ultimately, whether the anime was better or not, the ending impression of this movie is that it feels like the original was probably better.--PolarisDiB