Memorable, crazy movie

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Two cops go investigating something. They enter a building and find a dead girl hanging upside. In a room is some guy with a glass of blood. He attacks them and beats them. He's much stronger and ends up killing one of the cops and escapes crawling up a wall.The cop who is actually an NSA agent is now introduced to the truth by his superiors--there are thousands of vampires and they now want to be integrated into society. The dead girl was bled and the killer was a vampire. The agent is made to join forces with a vampire investigator. They go to the vampire ghetto for no reason, where the cop is nearly attacked. There he meets the main vampire. They introduce him to some Asian girl who reveals some info but also seduces the agent. In the course of the investigation they run into various vampire characters and recover a database of all the vampires that tells us which clique of vampires they belong to--those that want integration with humans, those who don't, those who don't care. We go to some underground club where they meets some more sinister vampires.But the humans aren't exactly up to much good either. They've developed a virus that affects only vampires, just in case that vampires don't have good intentions. We learn also a bit more about the past of our vampire investigator. When the vampires mount an operation to import weapons the cops intervene, but it turns out it was an operation to allow some vampires to leave town. Eventually we find out who this killing vampire is, which isn't much of a surprise, but it is a surprise to find out what he's up to. Of course our two heroes will have to confront this guy.The Breed has an interesting style. The human world is authoritarian/Orwellian complete with philosophical aphorisms that are constantly being broadcast. It's a future that resembles the 30s with widespread misery. Moreover, the quality of the movie itself is something out of the 80s not a 2001 movie. The cast is pretty dismal with the exception of Adrian Paul who tries to do his best, the rest don't even try or just can't. Unfortunately the movie doesn't stick to the vampire theme but misuses it for some social message and as a symbol for WWII. Completely unnecessary. It has a decent story, a cool style. With a stronger cast, more focused script, and some real actors it could have been a neat and original vampire flick.

"The Breed" is a rather original but bland vampire story.**SPOILERS**On the search for missing persons, Steven Grant, (Bokeem Woodbine) stumbles upon a rogue killer, and police officer Aaron Grey, (Adrian Paul) is assigned to help the case. Aaron reveals that he is a vampire, and that there is an alliance between the twp species and are anxious to solve the killings. As they delve into the mystery of the killings, they find a massive conspiracy from Vladimir West, (Zen Gresner) a militant extremist who disapproves of the alliance and strikes out against the two. Using help from fellow vampire Lucy Westenra, (Ling Bai) who wishes to help the cause, they discover a plot to use a deadly virus stolen from the humans and race to stop them from using it.The Good News: There really isn't a whole lot in here that's all that good, but what's here isn't that bad. The best part of the film is the central premise, which has the vampires and humanity in an effort to co-exist together for the first time, and the way it's done is quite clever. It's not the first time it's been done, but the methods and reasoning are pretty well thought-out, and give it a different twist than most other vampire films. Rather than just being about exterminating the entire society, it's about finding a rogue in the family, and that's not a bad way to go about things. There is a pretty decent action sequence near the end, with a SWAT team launching into a full-fledged shootout at a ship's dockyard. It's nicely handled, as there's tons of guns and stunts involved with all the usual action sequence heroics. There's even a small martial arts sequence involved that's not that bad, and with it taking the time to get everything done and over with rather than just ending abruptly, it's not that bad. The gore is manageable, with a couple of really nice neck-bites, a forehead caved in, a gun barrel impaled in the stomach and out the other side, and lots of bullet-wounds. There's far worse ones than this out there.The Bad News: There isn't a lot wrong with this one, but they are big ones. Very few films can get away with changing the vampire myth's, and this is no exception. From the start, it's mentioned that the traditional methods of dealing with vampires will not work, and that leaves very little suspense as to how to stop them. To throw away the most recognizable assets as this one does and then not to replace them with anything credible is a major disservice to vampire fans. One of the films biggest problems are it's action sequences, which are poorly staged and uninteresting to watch. It can't be stressed enough how badly the wire-works are in the movie, as they consist mainly of a bunch of vampires flying around on wires and shooting guns in each hand, which was done to much greater effect in a great many other types of film of the sort, and don't really have much of a place in the film, being there mainly to appeal to the crowd who finds it appealing rather than being an artistic choice. That appears most clearly in the dockyard sequence, where the fighting is all done in this manner and it gets very aggravating, even more so when it uses another incredibly common and very unwanted technique, which is the dreaded slow-motion shooting. This only pads out the running time by having a scene take twice as long as normal to finish, and it's not that original when used in the action scenes. All it does is wear the movie out longer, and it's done that way here. The fact that there's only one action scene in the whole movie also means that there's an incredibly amount of talking and investigating going on, and it's not the most thrilling one either. It's all full of clichéd scenes that really have no purpose, and it makes the film a real challenge to get through. All in all, it's not all that great of a vampire film.The Final Verdict: While by no means one of the best vampire films around, there's enough here to like and loathe about it. The more discriminating vampire fans can find some enjoyment in it if they can over look the fact that it plays around with the mythology, while non fans will be better severed with something else, there's really not a lot for them to enjoy with it.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity and a sex scene

I found it to be very Kim Newman-esquire in its approach to vampirism. It was likable, despite the painfully wooden acting. The scenery and costumes were heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and the Dr. Strangelove/1984 atmosphere was incredibly cool. However I still have to wonder how the main girl vampire managed to run around with those whacking great collars on her...And exactly what the heating bill was on her Gothic Mansion (tm). And I did love the fact that they used Buda-Pesth as their setting...The club was also cool, and slightly more fetish-y than other vampire movies like Blade...The dynamic between vamp cop and meat cop was quite good, still the same people from opposite sides aiming for the same goal while not quite trusting each other thing, but it made for some passable character development. And did I mention the supersharp 40s-style suit that the vamp cop gets to wear? Like I said, the costumes were gorgeous and well put together. The dialogue was a scream, but I'm sure it wasn't meant to be. "Cut the Anne Rice act!" From the lips of a vampire girl who I'm sure I've seen in gaming books, in fact, most of the main vamp characters seem to be based in the Masquerade vamp-style, running from fetish cyberpunk to nosferatu. The random acts of vampire motion were misplaced too. Stopping during a chase and twitching madly may look cool, but most viewers are going to be wondering WTF is going on. And the actor vamp is just the funniest thing alive...Or not quite so, as the case may be. And the handgrenade made me laugh, but that may just be my sense of humour.

Wait a minute... yes I do.The director of 'The Breed' has obviously seen Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' a few too many times and asked himself the question, "If 'Brazil' had been an ill-conceived tale about vampires in the near future, what would it be like?" Well, I'll tell ya, it'd be like 91 minutes of a Swedish whore kicking you in the groin, only not as satisfying. The dialogue was laced with gratuitous curse words and trite one-liners, and whoever edited this piece of crap should be shot. I have no real idea of exactly how the whole thing ended because I'm not really sure what happened during the first part of the film. With so many subplots your head begins to hurt and so much bad acting your head wants to explode this movie should only be viewed with large quantities of beer and at least two other people you can MST3K with. The only thing that made me not stab myself in the eye with a dirty soup spoon was this line: Evil Doctor Guy: "That's it, you are not James Bond, and I am not Blofeld. No more explanations!" Dude From Jason's Lyric: "I'm getting paid scale!" The cinematography was shaky at best and the acting was putrid. Also, what was with all the pseudo-1984 posters and PA announcements? The costumes were from the 50's, the cars were from the 60's, the music was from the 90's and I wish I were dead. This movie sucks.