Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

Fantastic!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

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.

I watched this, thinking that it's going to be a very mediocre movie. I mean, I judged the trailer as the 'best bits' of the movie and I was right. This movie is nowhere near great at all. I can't really compare it to the series as I've never seen it but apparently, the series is better. This review is from the point of view of a person who has never really heard of Blood until I saw the movie trailer. The movie, in my opinion, felt like there was no story in it and felt like things were just happening. I thought that the acting in this was very wooden, it just wasn't great at all. The only actress I would say that played their character well was the actress who played Saya. I thought that she was quite good at times but then on other times, she looked like she was being forced to play this role. I thought the actress who played Onigen wasn't good at all, it was below mediocre and the actress who played Sharon was…not bad but not good either.The special effects was quite bad. There were some good points where it was great but in other parts of the movie, it looked entirely fake. The demons looked unreal but the action scenes were very well done, it's just a shame that the special effects weren't the same. If you are going to watch this movie, I must warn you that this isn't a movie to take seriously. Basically something to do when you have time to waste and you don't want to think for an hour and a half.Read more reviews at: www.dudedazzmoviereviews.wordpress.com

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

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.