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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
So much for the Chiropterans., 7 Sep 2009
This is a fairly good adaption of an excellent manga - based on the anime (rather than the books or graphic novels) with a fair bit of it altered.
We begin, as in the anime, on a train with Saya eying up a vamp for the kill. Then she infiltrates an American Army Base High School and things become decidedly different.
For a start we are now in the 70s not the 60s. We also soon learn that here Saya is a 'halfling' with a human father and vampire mother, rather than being the only remaining origional. This is a pointless, unorigional, and idiotic change - after all it is called The LAST Vampire.
The School Nurse is sadly missing, being replaced by Alice, a fellow student. This is a shame. It was fun watching Saya drag around the poor woman using her more as a sort of decoy rather than trying to save her life. I suppose the fact that we see Saya with a friend in the film makes her more likable, but I personally felt no need for that.
As for the Chiropterans, the anime monsters were superbly designed and I was looking forward to seeing a frightening new imagining of these creatures, but sadly the film vampires are a little lame by comparison. Though I thought the light and smoke transformation looked quite cool I would have prefered to have seen the actual metamorphosis in all it's bone crunching glory. There was also an army of bloodsuckers operating here, rather than just the odd lone predator.
As far as the fight scenes go I thought the direction was far too personal to Saya herself, the camera was just too close in so a lot of the action was unclear. What you can see properly is excellent though.
The casting was good with no bad perfomances, but no great ones either. And, being set in the 70s, the soundtrack is obviously brilliant.
In conclusion, this could have been a lot better, but it's still worth seeing if you're a fan of the franchise. But as with all adaptions an open mind is required.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
if only they could make more sequels, 4 Dec 2009
This review is from: Blood: The Last Vampire [Blu-ray] [2009] (Blu-ray)
This is a movie adaptation from the hit acclaimed anime movie Blood The Last Vampire.
When I first heard of this movie in the works, I didn't know what to think. Until I saw the first released trailer online and was blown away mindlessly! After that, I couldn't eagerly wait for this movie, as I noted down so many movies to be released this 2009, X-men Origins too etc.
I finally saw this movie at the cinema day of opening. But I'm here to review the Blu-Ray version.
This Blu-Ray version is awesome, I enjoyed the movie at the cinema but enjoyed it more with this Blu-Ray version.
The picture quality is TOP NOTCH! It's so sharp, and the extensive use of the colour toning was so damn awesome. It made part of the scenes feel like how it should be in years, like the Air base feels like 60s/70s like, the delusion effect used by Onigen, the alley battle etc. In the cinema, the use of blood effect felt so ridiculous stupid, but with in HD, it looked alright and nothing to complain. In the cinema, the true forms of the demon was lame, but in HD, they looked AMAZING! You wouldn't even know it's CG but think it's a prop.
Sound effects were sick too, you won't be disappointed.
As for the features, well, I was disappointed with the features in this movie, because of the bad reviews this movie got, developers/publishers didn't spend time on extra features. Though the menu design is nice.
A lot of people didn't like this movie because of the story adaptation for this movie. Once again, people do not understand adaptation development. Just because you are making a movie out of a video game let's say Resident Evil 1. That doesn't mean the movie plotline needs to be EXACTLY the same as the game:/ Basically you are wasting your money on the same thing you've experienced before.
I've paid money to watch Blood the Last Vampire 45min anime movie, why in the world should I pay more money to experience the same storyline in live action, performed by real humans!??? No I want something new.
But what I was disappointed in the storyline was the use of the Airbase from the anime movie, it was just an excuse to make the movie feel original just like the anime movie:/
I wasn't disappointed with this movie, infact I was surprised and pleased. Beowulf's DvD boxart says "Action packed", and sadly there weren't that much action to the movie! But this movie defines Action Pack, because there were so much action going on just for a 84min movie!
Good thing I got this for a good price, because this movie and it's features isn't worth £19!
I wish the makers would consider a sequel to this movie, franchise like this shouldn't be underrated. "Blood +" anime series wasn't all that. We need another movie sequel or game!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good - Faithful to the anime, 31 Mar 2010
If you liked the Anime version you won't be disapointed with this film. Both in plot and 'look' they are very similar, but whereas the original seemed like an episode this feels more like the whole story with more closure at the end. More of Saya's origins are recounted and she get's a better sidekick for this battle. Although the story ends here,there is a small question mark at the end for the producers to develop a sequel, but it will have to be a whole new story.
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