Blood - The Last Vampire [2009] (DVD)

Based on a popular manga/anime series, Blood: The Last Vampire combines the skills of Samurai warrior with the supernatural abilities of the vampire to create Saya, (Gianna Jun) a 400 year old vampire. She is a Halfling, born to a human father and vampire mother, but doomed to need blood to survive, just like the bloodsucking demons she hunts. Her ultimate aim is to destroy Onigen (Koyuki) the powerful and merciless matriarch of the vampires. It's post World War Two Japan, and Saya is under the control of a secret government agency who send her on missions where vampires are known to be hiding, in exchange for being kept supplied with fresh blood. Her ...  Read the complete review

Vampire human hybrid Saya looks sixteen but is in fact four hundred years old. Working for a government agency she has but one goal in life, to destroy Onigen the matriachal vampire who leaves death in her wake. However, to do this she might have to rely on something in her she hasn't utilised in a long time...her humanity. "Blood: The Last Vampire" has a terribly confusing nonsense of a plot. It is clearly nothing more than a vehicle to maximise the bloodshed and action in the movie. However, to be fair, in this respect it is hugely successful. Based on a comic series and then a 2001 film, the filmmakers have clearly decided to use the basic ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Outside of its audience of foaming anime fanboys, it's difficult to see how anyone could really enjoy this cack-handed adaptation of the acclaimed 2000 anime horror of the same name. This is clearly inept as a clever film, but even as a basal action film, it can't muster the visceral goods and is instead a painfully repetitive, risible attempt at being poignant and edgy. Moreover, the style it purports to have is thoroughly uninviting, giving one little reason to watch this sadly underwhelming dreck. Saya is a 400-year-old half human-half vampire who hunts vampires for a living, working for ...  Read the complete review

If I have built up any credibility on this site, do not go and watch this film; it's awful. Blood is about a mysterious Chinese girl who's a vampire/demon killer. Her job is to protect humanity by killing the baddies before they hurt humans. OK, that sounds simple enough, where's the problem? For a start, the acting is atrocious and I mean that; a plethora of English actors trying to be Americans just doesn't work, and it's so fake it drives you crazy. The film is a bit of a pastiche of the Matrix, Buffy, and marital arts films starring the likes Jet Li, but is not half as good on any counts. It tries to cash in on the vampire craze and has an air of trying ...  Read the complete review