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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Breed - a personal view., 19 Mar 2004
If you want a traditional vampire film, ie lots of gore, heaving bosoms (male and female) then this is not a film for you. If however you want to see an intelligent story well told, that includes a vampiric element then you will enjoy it. This film is multi layered and there is a strong message in it about the problems of demonising a group or race and using them as scapegoats. This is not subtly done and is I suspect, deliberate, the militaristic, even fascist nature of the state in the film is unsettling. The director talks of paying homage to Brazil (the film, not the country) but there is also a strong element of 1984 in it,the state in this story is most definitely watching over everybody. That said the acting is very, very good, Adrian Paul comes across as a cop who happens to be a vampire, but a vampire who has never really come to terms with what he is, why it happened to him and the loss of his family to the Nazis. Bokeem Woodbine is excellent as the cop having to overcome his own prejudices and learn from his mistakes. The action scenes are particularly well done and the look of the film is impressive if a little overdone. The only real problem I have with it is that whilst I enjoyed the story, I felt detached from it at the same time. I wanted to care more about the characters than I actually did, perhaps if there is ever a follow up we could be told more about the protagonists and why they are the way they are.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful integration of vampires, nazis and germ-warfare, 1 April 2003
This film noire is a tale of vampires. I know what you’re thinking- “original”. Well you could be forgiven for having this view, after-all; this is truly a genre that has been done to “death” (excuse the undead pun). To make this film work it would truly need to be innovative and new; which it is in a big way. Rather than the classic idea of the undead rising for a taste of human flesh, it adds another angle previously unseen in other vampire movies- a scientific one. This revolutionary movie idea portrays the vampires as an evolutionary step-up from humans; that have evolved with super-human attributes. But fans of the classic vampire film need not worry, as this film still has its vampires craving blood, being immune to diseases (most of them anyway), and being resistant to hurt- unless it is fatal or caused by silver bullets.
NSA agent Steven Grant (Bokeem Woodbine) is reluctantly assigned a new partner after his partner is murdered on a case. He later learns that his partner was murdered by a vampire and as if this isn’t enough, he later learns that his new partner Aaron Grey (Adrian Paul) is a vampire. He is now part of a world he never knew existed; a world where there are creatures so strong that they could kill a man like a helpless kitten, and unfortunately these creatures have reason to; they have a taste for human blood. As he struggles to come to terms with this he is partnered with this cop, who continues his education in the matter; explaining how vampires are misunderstood- being no longer a threat to man, having developed a synthetic substitute for blood. They continue their search for a "renegade" vampire that is attempting to sabotage an as-yet secret co-existence agreement between the humans and the vampires. With heavy political pressure upon the two differing "cops" they must get results and stop the mysterious renegade before irreparable damage is done to human / vampire relations before they begin. It is a race against time, as any wrong move could destroy any chance of integration and lead to a war between the two races…
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4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A shocking homage to the classic horror genre, 23 Mar 2004
The Breed stars Adrian Paul, who is mainly known as Duncan MacLeod from the television series of Highlander and also featured in the TVM Highlander endgame. This should indicate the calibre of movie that the Breed is. It tries to update the vampire genre by introducing what they feel is a slick and modern theme to it. However this is poorly done and its references to both the classic Nosfertau with a character they name Dr Orlock and a reference to what may be Dracula pay little tribute. If I had to place this in a vein of movies, I would suggest if you like the movies of Mortal Kombat and the film by Jet Li and Mel Gibson 'Invincible' this has a similar cinematic feel to it. Watch it if you like an eclectic mix of your cinema, if you value your time though it may be one to skip. There are far better vampire movies. Not meaning to be cruel, but them the breaks.
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