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I wanted to like this, i really did, I have seen the anime and thought live action version may not match up but it would good to see the transition. Boy was i wrong this thing is entirely different and that would not be too bad if this was different and good as a movie in its own right, but this is difference and Awful. The lines that they speak was something from self help books. "Saya promise me one thing, Promise me you will never doubt yourself" It was like watching a girls sleepover with the odd occasion of a Vampire/Demon that had resemblance to a Dwarf.

The Start, The Middle, The end. Nothing saves this movie.

I was looking forward to this film as a Buffy the Vampire fan, anime and martial arts film lover. I was disappointed from start to finish. To call this a B Movie is an insult to B movies everywhere. It had a good premise, but terrible execution.

The film is supposed to take place in Japan in 1970. I'm not sure if the filmmakers intended to use the technology from the 1970s to make it seem more authentic, but the special effects were laughable. The demons looked like something out of the old Sinbad films from the 1950s or Clash of the Titans in the early 80s.

The acting, storyline and "special effects" can only be described as campy. The best kind of campy is unintentional camp ala the movie Showgirls. From that standpoint I should have enjoyed this film, because it took itself way to seriously. Despite the camp factor, I was bored out of my mind and happy to see this film end.

"No depth, no emotions, pure blood and gore. Just the way the Americans liked it, and what the whole hype was about." The above is such a vast generalization. Not every film being made in Asia is a work of art, nor our all films made in America shallow and gory.

There are plenty of sophisticated films and television shows made for American audiences that, doesn't rely on "blood and gore", nor are they "devoid of depth or emotions" and that includes anime cartoons. They are made in Japan and dubbed in English, and shown directly on American television. They don't change the story lines to suit the American audience, and they don't suffer in popularity as a result.

The fact that this film was terrible had nothing to do with the American audiences "likes or dislikes." Perhaps if American filmmakers were involved in the project they would have helped with the special effects and improved the poor dialogue. And they wouldn't have hired English actors to do bad North American accents either.

The Hong Kong film makers and French director only have themselves to blame for making a film of such poor quality.

The only redeeming feature of the movie was Kato, and his presence in the film totalled no less than 10 minutes.

The excessive use of bad CGI's, poorly choreographed fight scenes coupled with an abysmal script and endless potholes and pointless side stories, and it's understandable why everyone decided to leave midway through the film.

Most characters were undeveloped and poorly acted, and the story lacked a certain.. well consistency. It seemed to spurt in all different directions. There was no climax, the big boss fight scene at the end refused to deliver. Everything looked awful, sounded awful and was in fact, just plain awful.

I would avoid this film like the plague.

I went into this with an open mind, I really did. But there's virtually nothing good about it outside of the relatively solid casting for Saya. Cutting out every key player from the original film to bring in forgettable nobody characters who add nothing to the narrative is one of many, many mistakes this adaptation makes as it fails to capture an ounce of the horror the original film has to offer. David and Lewis are cut, bringing in "Alice" who's just there to fill the generic screaming woman character quota needed in bland horror films and I mean she does nothing worth mentioning. Further genericizing the lore is accomplishing by changing the chiropterans' names to simply "bloodsuckers" and leaving behind Katsuya Terada's unique creature designs in favor of bland PS2 cutscene looking vampire monsters that lack any real menace to speak of who appear in far greater numbers, dulling their impact. Rather than pulling off the surprise attacks they did in the 2000 film they spend more time hissing and standing around waiting for Saya to do something edgy and kool since I guess the budget was too minuscule to show anything interesting. You'd think having a longer runtime would've given the filmmakers the opportunity to flesh out the shorter story present in the original film with yet rather than taking the expanded ideas from the novels or PS2 game we just get a generic kung fu/revenge film slapped into the mix. Just watch the original movie and Blood+

Everything from the acting, to the storyline, to the CG effects would make anyone want to run to the laundry room to try and bleach this movie out of their minds. I was surprised how very little this movie adheres to the anime it was based on. Even the most die-hard fans of the anime would find it hard not to scoff at how horrid this movie adaptation is.

Don't get me wrong, the first 5 minutes of the movie are superb. The whole scene on the subway train is like a teaser of a main entrée guaranteed to appease even the most hearty of appetites.

The problem is: the main entrée never makes it to the plate. It seems that whoever cooked up this idea decided to order up a Taco Bell equivalent storyline, acting, and effects.

If you really want to subject yourself to an hour and a half of pure torture, go about it the right way and go see Bloodrayne.

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.