“Blood: The Last Vampire” Delivers Swords, Schoolgirls, and 1970s Angst

In Blood : The Last Vampire , a blade - toting , half - demon schoolgirl matriculates into high school on a US military substructure in seventies Japan . She ’s there to wham some monster , electrocute your eyeballs in their sockets , and toy with the infernal region out of you .

Sort of like a admixture of Buffy , Vampire Hunter D , and Abel Ferrara ’s interpretation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( which also accept spot on a military base ) , lineage is a ninja shoo-in with style . Saya is a half - fiend who has been a schoolgirl for seemingly one C of eld , working occasionally with the mysterious “ Council ” to off vicious creatures who take the air among humans . In particular , these demons seem to savor portray teenagers , high schooltime teachers , and penis of the US armed forces station in Japan . Which kind of make sense , in reality .

From the moment Saya arrives at the humble high school , we experience awesomeness will result . We ’ve already seen that the Thomas Kyd at the school are antiblack and mean , making fun of Soya ’s soon - to - be - bestie Alice and calling everyone who is n’t American a “ Jap . ” The 1970s scope add together an extra property of weird to the movie . We know that the Vietnam War is happening off - screen , and it give the Council member – who act to be CIA – an air of retro creepiness . Plus Alice is always sneaking off to groovy rock concert , and Saya to her plausibly seems like just another far - out , glam creature – Grace Slick with a sword .

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base on a popular manga of the same name , Blood is a thoroughly international production . It was written by Chris Chow ( scribe behind Jet Li ’s Fearless ) calculate by a disturbed French guy named Chris Nahon , and stars Korean pop idol Gianna Jun as Saya the half - demon schoolgirl . Soya ’s sidekick Alice is played by American Allison Miller , most recently see in the short - lived TV series Kings . And most of the movie is in English .

When Alice give away that her schoolfellow are demons , and then her father is murder by a Council member give-up the ghost rogue , Alice blend rogue herself . She sees Saya doing mega - brand scrap with an entire bar full of daemon and decides to team up up with the monstery loner to fight bad bozo . Who on the nose the uncollectible guys are is a lilliputian unclear . Obviously the demons are bad , as are the military people who cover up her father ’s destruction . Also the council guys are bad too .

So everybody is spoiled , which is great because we get more fit of Saya kick and swording the SOB out of everybody . Though this motion-picture show clocks in at a small 90 minutes , even I have to allow that some of the fight scenery were a flake too long . I have intercourse monster fighting goliath , and schoolgirls fighting vampire , but endlessly slice up people ’s faces in two – sigh . peculiarly when the line of descent all look like the zero - G blood from Star Trek : The Undiscovered Country . Big pellets of CGI sludge catch fire from fiend necks , esophagus , arms , whatevers ? Cool the first fourth dimension , but a bit wearying after a while .

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Eventually it emerges that there is a really , really , really bad person named Onigen ( whom I kept thinking was describe Onigiri , which made me thirsty ) . And Saya is off to toss off Onigen , who is like the Big Bad of the demon earthly concern and also killed Saya ’s dad .

The motion picture may be bum , but the team behindBloodpulls out all the stops and deal to have a final confrontation almost worthy of ( dare I say it?)Swordsman II . Well OK , it was a pale echo ofSwordsman II , but it still gave me that warm , happy feeling that comes from watching unholy ladies with blade float and zooming and stabbing and screaming mean things at each other .

If nothing else , bloodline is a nice antidote to your Twilight blues . No sheeny vampire here , and all the girls have traded their mopey diaries for samurai steel .

Lesdilley