Blood: The Last Vampire
Blood: The Last Vampire
R | 09 July 2009 (USA)
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On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.

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CheerupSilver

Very Cool!!!

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WasAnnon

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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BelSports

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Geraldine

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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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

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taylorfar

Epic! epic movie, that's all I have to say, put it this way I hate making accounts for stuff like IMDb, and after years of looking at this site for reviews I've made an account just to put a review on this movie and defend it from these atrociously low ratings and reviews because I saw it was so undersold and unfairly accused as a tosh movie. It's full of win to the brim, while I can't guarantee you'll like this movie it must be watched for you to decide for yourself, I see reviews either extremely low or extremely high for a reason, its a real love it or hate it but you just have to find out for yourself I personally loved it, visually stunning fight scenes were a non stop thrill characters were totally likable and I think the story as I found out based on the anime was really good with no big holes, the negative things people have complained about I consider semantics and did not at all take away from the awesomeness that was Blood the last vampire.

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kimchimofo

first of all, why did they have a korean girl play saya. it's originally a Japanese series by Japanese writers and directors, so it just doesn't make sense. i got a big laugh out of the scene when saya first went to class and they said "they let a jap in here" ... NOT A JAP! secondly, they followed the storyline of the anime too closely. basically just adding the stuff about onigen and making into a live-action film. it would seem that in 90 minutes of live action, they could have gotten more creative, especially since blood+ was only about thirty something minutes. a real disappointment all around. in other words, dumb.

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tedg

Snuffing Marines on OkinawaI am absolutely amazed at how vital the vampire meme is. It ranges from deeply sexual expression to a generic stand-in for the "other" against which you do battle. In this project, it is so generic it is pushed aside so that sharper archetypes can be brought to the fore.Here we have a Japanese Buffy, though I assume her character predates that TeeVee show. She is a 400 year old samurai master in a 15 year old body. The plot has her in a Japanese sailor school uniform. She battles evil ninja zombies, sometimes as lumbering zombies, sometimes as flying beasts, and sometimes as ordinary sword-wielding masked ninjas. The disparately is not explained, nor does it seem to need to be.This was made before Japan announced a major re-arming of its military, so there is an odd setting of the story. They wanted military gear and your typical stupid general. So they set this on an American military base in Japan. This allows some background guys, gaijin with dark suits that act like Matrix types. This alien overlap: Americans in Japan and Vampires in the world, should not be lost on us. A nitwit American (girl) is assigned as sidekick.Nor is the girl-woman business. Turns out that the master vampire is revealed to be her mother, who she angrily kills. I do not know the amine on which this is based. Usually the nubile sexuality of the young girls are the whole point. That sailor uniform is such a strong indicator that the profound modesty of the girl here is shocking. The body shape is completely hidden in a skirt below the knees with a blouse buttoned to chin. There is no body display at all which makes me wonder who the target audience was. Nobody but preteen boys would be interested in this junk.She does have that smoldering look, head down, eyes raised with menacing knowledge of absolute control. Maybe the filmmakers figured that was enough.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

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