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63
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
As murky and derivative-looking as the film is, it moves with an authority that pummels you into submission.
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50
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Alas, as is often the case with lower-end genre movies, the story cooked up by Wiseman and his friends, actor Kevin Grevioux and the film's screenwriter, Danny McBride, is decidedly less important than the look of the film and its influences.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It's so impossible to care about the characters in the movie that I didn't care if the vampires or werewolves won. I might not have cared in a better movie, either, but I might have been willing to pretend.
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50
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
By the end, I was starting to ponder questions like, If a vampire mates with a lycan-vamp hybrid, which parent will have to convert?
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40
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The New York Times
Achieves only loudness, aggressive confusion and one of the silliest head-splittings in film history.
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30
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Plays less like a novel re-imagining of a classic if campy narrative than a drearily self-conscious exercise in Know Your Film References.
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25
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
"Your incompetence is most taxing," says the chief vampire (Bill Nighy). A line that pretty much nails this rusty Blade.
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25
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Neither side is worth rooting for in this ridiculous blood feud, which features some of the year's most laughable dialogue.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle
Could use script transfusion, or at least a few quarts of levity.
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20
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
It needs a wooden stake AND a silver bullet through its script.
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