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3.0 out of 5 stars
The last original, 24 Mar 2010
This review is from: Blood - The Last Vampire [Blu-ray] [2000] (Blu-ray)
Your basic vampire is perfectly suited to anime -- beautiful, seductive, and opulant.
Well, most of them, anyway. Things are a bit different in "Blood: The Last Vampire," an anime movie that bravely throws out most of the vampire preconceptions, as well as plot exposition. It's not a total success storywise, but it's an effectively dark, moody piece of bloody action.
As the movie opens, we see a mysterious young girl, Saya, on a train. When the lights go out, she savagely attacks a man at the other end of the train with a sword.
It turns out the man was a Chiropteran -- a sort of bat-vampire. When her coworkers arrive to clean up the mess, Saya learns that the Chiropterans have infiltrated the general public -- and she has to go undercover at a girls' high school near an American military base. She isn't happy about it, but goes anyway.
Saya begins snooping around for evidence of Chiropterans, and finds it -- a pair are disguised as ordinary high school girls. But when she corners them, a timid nurse accidentally gets involved in the bloodbath that ensues -- and a deadly cat-and-mouse game between the mysterious Saya and her monstrous prey.
"Blood: The Last Vampire" is one of those movies where the plot isn't the overwhelming force. In fact, the actual story isn't much -- it feels like tuning into an episode of a weekly TV show, without much explanation for who Saya is and what is going on. And after the first third, the movie is pretty much entirely devoted to "Saya hacks and slashes her way through the school while the nurse screams a lot."
But the visual presentation is stunning -- every scenes is saturated with shadows and vague, pale light. And while many scenes are quiet and almost motionless, the action scenes explode with kinetic energy, splashes of gore, and occasionally a raging fire. And when Saya jumps into action, the entire world seems to speed up into a blur of violence and splattered blood.
One thing you have to say -- there are no stereotypically pretty, European vampires here. There's only Saya -- a cold-eyed girl who looks like Angelina Jolie's gothy baby sister -- and a lot of grotesque bat creatures, with huge muzzles and big claws. The most "human" person here is probably the timid nurse, but we never really get to know her until the end.
"Blood: The Last Vampire" isn't too worried about having a plot, but for splattery action and fast-moving vampire battles, it's a dark diversion.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Blood -The Last Vampire ( Blu-rey) (2000), 24 Nov 2011
This review is from: Blood - The Last Vampire [Blu-ray] [2000] (Blu-ray)
In a American military base in japan . A great threat exist within the walls of the heavily guarded compond. vampires.A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a mysteriuos young voman to desroy them.She is the last remainig orginal.It's match blood in this movie .So it's not for those who can't see blood.But i say it's a excellent movie.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Bloody Brilliant!, 29 Aug 2010
This review is from: Blood - The Last Vampire [Blu-ray] [2000] (Blu-ray)
a revolution in modern anime, but i cant go any furthr, the product is very reliable and fast. the sale made this affordable. if you like your anime let me tell you first that it's short, around 50 mins long, but it's pretty much an OVA so you cant complain, the movie made you want more so check out blood+ afterwords. however my blu ray did have a slight dent in the front but the disc and contents were still fine. can you try to be more carefull at handelling it please!?
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