Blood: The Last Vampire is a live-action movie adapted from an animated series of the same name. The movie stars Korean actress Jun Ji-Hyun, who adopted an English screen name Gianna Jun.
SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Gianna Jun in "Blood: The Last Vampire"
Saya (Gianna Jun) is a 400-year-old half human-half vampire who hunts full blooded vampires. Her dad was a vampire hunter as well but was killed by the greatest vampire, Onigen (Koyuki). Vow to avenge her dad’s death, Saya joins a coveted government agency to hunt down vampires with the goal to eventually meet Onigen.
Saya disguises as a Japanese student in an American military school in order to find the demons hiding there. In the process, Saya kills Linda and Sharon, two demons who disguise as students in the school. The slaughter is witnessed by Alice Mckee (Allison Miller), the daughter of General Mckee (Larry Lamb). Alice reveals what she has witnessed to her dad but to no avail since the cleaners manage to disguise themselves as CIA.
Utterly disappointed, Alice goes out hunting for the truth when the sky goes dark but is surrounded by vampires. Alice runs for her life and is saved by Saya, who manages to wipe out all the vampires without even a scratch.
Alice returns home only to find her dad is dying and the government agents try to kill her as well. Alice finds Saya in a motel downtown as her last resort as she has nowhere else to run. Together, they steal a military truck and escape into the jungle as both of them are wanted by the military. While in the forest, they encounter demons which can fly, although with Saya’s abilities, they manage to fend off the demons.
Although the truck plunges down in the end, both of them somehow survive the fall. When Saya finally encounters Onigen, she realizes Onigen is her mother and all the while she kills vampires, she’s becoming more vampirish rather than becoming more human. In the end, Onigen willingly lets Saya to kill her so she would become her.
While the special effect department did a really great job, the character, Alice added some flaw to the film. Although Alice is human, she’s more invincible than Saya. In fact, the only time she bleeds is when she fed her blood to Saya to relieve her. Anyway, Blood: The Last Vampire is still enjoyable to watch, especially if ones like blood.
My ratings: 8 out of 10.
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The storyline of the half human-half vampire does seem to draw a bit on the Blade Trinity story, but if it works, it works hey! I will still watch and enjoy this, as the vampire genre is one of my favs!
I thought this movie was beyond ridiculous. there were so many moments that just did NOT make sense.
@Lisette: Maybe because this movie is based on the animated series and animated means it’s usually fantasy genre which usually contains elements that doesn’t make sense.
this is undoubtably the biggest dissepointment of any amine/ film lover.
being a fan of both the 2000 animation movie as well as the blood plus series, i have to say that is was a load of bull.
completely unrelated to the original themes, the only thing it stuck to was the idea of blood sucking and sayas character, although saya was still the protagonist, many unknown characters were added in, without any relevance. the theme of love was almost completely lost. when i saw the trailors I assumed that the japanese girl in white would be Diva, sayas blood SISTER in the blood plus reies, therefor combinning the anime film with the series, but no , it was her MOTHER wtf, the surreality of the last sequence was completely irrelevant to the story line, im not sure if there were no sub titles in the version i watched when there should have been because i watched it on the internet and i understand that i could have lost a lot of understanding through the lack of subs but I somehow get the feeling that the dissepointment would have been just as great.
there was also no mention of the word CHIROPTERA in the film, which should have been constant throughout as it was in both the 2000 film AND the series, in my opinion the director was simply too lazy to transform every BLOODSUCKER in the film into a fully blown monster. And when the transformation did occure there was the effect of sparkly dust and a bit of wind, which in turn revealed a distinctly S*** plastic looking monster, completely lacking the distinkt charactaristics of the original chriroptera. the whole film seemed quite lazy, even though this perticular director is well known for his brilliant use of colour in films such as HERO this was nowhere to be found in this film (blood, the last vampire).
Overall i think it was hugely dissepointing, although i cannot judge it with the eye of someone who has not seen the previouse animated film or the series I can only assume that the general response will not be a positive one….well, if theyve got any sence that is.
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