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Director :<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Chris Nahon **********************<\/p>\n As a general rule, I don\u2019t take much heed when I see posters and previews for live-action remakes of anime. However, while in London in 2009 I came across something while walking Piccadilly Circus that had me bubbling with ecstatic elation. A remake of one of my favorite anime short films — Blood: The Last Vampire.<\/em> What captured me and actually had my hopes raised in anticipation was the fact that the star of the film was an Asian woman. You mean a remake of an anime that\u2019s NOT completely white-washed?! Sign me up and take my $10 donation!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, at that point I didn\u2019t have glasses and couldn\u2019t see extreme detail, but now I do. Upon further inspection of the actual poster, I realized that the actress playing the Japanese vampire half-breed was none other than Gianna Jun, a coquettish South Korean<\/span> actress. Last time I checked Japan and SK were kinda NOT closely related in any other way than simply being part of Asia. This, of course, is a result of much of Hollywood\u2019s motto as regards portraying people of Eastern ethnic descent: any Asian will do. That should\u2019ve been my first clue that not only were my hopes going to be dashed, they were about to be beaten up, spat upon, and called names as they lay shuddering and gasping for breath on the cold, hard concrete.<\/p>\n The prospect of having a fully realized adaptation was so exciting that my expectation of the film was much higher than it probably should have been. I\u2019d conjured up some sort of grand fantasy about the beauty of the film, which was bristling with a great deal of raw potential. In the end, however, this fantasy was flung to the rocks at the bottom of a craggy cliff of disappointment.<\/p>\n I won\u2019t get into the finer details of the plot; however, the foundation of the script is still relatively similar to that of its animated predecessor. A girl with a sixth sense for the undead and bloodthirsty is sent on a mission at a school on an American military base. She is to root out and destroy the ferocious beasts lurking within the student population, one of which is apparently the Queen Bee of the lot in that area. From there the similarities desist.<\/p>\n From the very first scene, the one thing that stands out in this movie is the absolute fakeness of it — a hilarious concept, considering it\u2019s meant to steep the sensational ideas of the anime in a more concrete reality. As far-fetched as the idea of a girl who has the ability to kill demon vampires seems one can suspend reality enough to focus on the story and the action at hand. In this live-action retelling, the first scene we get is a clich\u00e9d and archaic introduction, the words, of course, scrolling down the screen in a shimmering gold font. If the choice of actress wasn\u2019t already a dead giveaway, the fact that the filmmakers assumed their core audience consisted of people who were easily distracted by bright colors should\u2019ve instantly made me fling my television out my window.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, I\u2019m a \u201cbenefit of the doubt\u201d type person. Surely, SURELY this couldn\u2019t be the very reincarnation of the eye molestation that was every fan\u2019s worst nightmare come true in Dragonball<\/em>? Surely, they hadn\u2019t decided they were gonna take another stab at it with another poor, defenseless anime that hadn\u2019t done anything to deserve such treatment?<\/p>\n I guess they did.<\/p>\n Lo and behold, we\u2019ve another mind-f*ck of a film, complete with all the trappings of cinematic failure that ensure movies of this ilk are one and done at the cinema, then flung into a $5 throwaway bin in Wal-Mart. Absurd fighting sequences, stilted acting, and what was supposed to be our fear-inducing vampire juggernaut was nothing more than a throw away costume from Guillermo del Toro\u2019s El Laberinto del Fauno<\/em> combined with some sort of awkward looking horse creature. After about the first 15 minutes I was so completely offended that I had to take a walk around my neighborhood just to clear my mind of all the disgust.<\/p>\n Though this isn\u2019t particularly the worst film I\u2019ve ever seen, it\u2019s pretty damn high on the list. As it is, I\u2019ve gone through extensive cathartic therapy writing out my unadulterated anger at Night for his evil spawn of a movie The Last Airbender<\/em>, so there\u2019s no need for me to harp on it any longer. So a crown jewel of the dynasty of failure in my mind is none other than this unearthly stinker.<\/p>\n By some weird happenstance I\u2019ve got two copies of the thing. I keep trying to give it another chance, but every time I pop it in the DVD player, about five minutes in I\u2019m itching to punch something. So if anyone\u2019s looking to throw away 90 minutes\u2026<\/p>\n As a general rule, I don\u2019t take much heed when I see posters and previews for live-action remakes of anime. However, while in London in 2009 I came across something while walking Piccadilly Circus that had me bubbling with ecstatic elation. 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\nYear Of Release :<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 2009
\nPrincipal Cast :<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Jun Ji-hyun, Allison Miller, Masiela Lusha, JJ Feild, Koyuki, Liam Cunninhgam.
\nApprox Running Time :<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 91 Minutes
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The film focuses on a half-human, half-vampire girl named Saya, who hunts full-blooded vampires in partnership with humans and seeks to destroy Onigen, the most powerful of vampires.
\nWhat we think :<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 20% on Rotten Tomatoes tells you a lot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/blood_the_last_vampire_2-725x396-custom.jpg\" "\\"BTLV01\\"")
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