Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Okay, when it comes to anime I'm generally a fan of Yoshiaki Kawajiri and spin-offs from other live action films. So I bought this film because I really had high expectations for it. I wanted to see what would happen. This film could've been on par with the Vampire Hunter D series, I am that serious but the makers try everything to ruin the experience of Blood: The Last Vampire.Saya is a vampire hunter who looks like a young adult, she is called in to an American air base in Japan to hunt and kill vampires. A suicide occurs and it turns out that that is the work of vampires covering their tracks and its up to Saya, the last original vampire, to find and kill the vampire causing it.Now when it comes to ruining the experience of this film (yes, I'll get to that first) this is a vampire hunting film without explaining anything about the vampire lore they've set up. If they followed the traditional vampire lore, it would be okay but it doesn't. Both Saya and the vampire she's tracking are seen in direct sunlight, the "mutated vampires" have this "other form" and it looks like Karel Rupert Kroenon from Hellboy. Does it try to explain it? Nope.My other biggest complaint is the time limit. This film is only 40 minutes long. Now this wouldn't be so bad but I hear there is a TV show, (Of which I will check that out) Why not release this with the show? An average time limit for an action show is 40 minutes per episode.Onto what I liked, the animation is really well put together and has a nice organic flow-through, the voice acting had no faults and the story, while basic, is pretty well executed.So overall I'm giving this a 7/10. I really wanted to love this film but unfortunately, I couldn't get into it with the movie's two biggest problems glaring at the viewer. I'd say check this one out but if you're like me, don't expect too much.

I really liked this movie! It was short, I'll give you that, and I'm a little biased. See, I'm a fan of an anime series "blood+" It's about this girl, saya, who kills these blood sucking monsters with super human strength, called....yup, thats right, kyropterines (I really butchered the spelling there, SORRY!). Sound familiar? Oh, but there's more!! She uses a sword and works for a secret organization. Her handler type guy is named David (huh, what's that?) and his partner is Luis (yup, thats what I said).So, you see some similarities? Well, if you liked the movie and would like to know more, there's your source of info. The style of the series is a bit different, and I'm not sure which inspired which. I think the movie probably inspired the series, just based on the time line and other info i don't want to spoil. Anyway, check it out. not QUITE so gory as the movie, but excellent never the less!! ENJOY ALL!

Recap: On a school in an American military base in Japan, suddenly a girl, sent by a mysterious organisation, appears and starts to kill man-eating demons (that disguises themselves as pupils). After some fighting and an anticlimactic end fight, it ends.Comments: Why? How? Who? Those are the questions that never get answered in this movie. Those are also the questions that need to be answered if you are to have any success telling a story. You need to explain, at least to some small extent, give a hint, who the main character are, what they are doing and a reason why. You need to establish what or who the antagonists are. You can do this at the start at the movie, unravel it as it goes or reveal the shocking truth at the end. You need to answer those questions! If you don't, you get a real crappy story. This one did.The trivia section of this movie states: "This was originally supposed to be a three episode OAV series, but due to a lack of time and money, only the middle segment was animated and given theatrical distribution." This is about the only thing about the movie that makes sense, although it is not stated anywhere near the actual movie. Because my feeling was exactly that it felt like I had missed the beginning that established and explained the characters and the plot. And that there was no real ending. Which is exactly what seemed to have happened.The animation is interesting, switching between "normal" and 3D. Mostly the quality of the animation is good, most characters beautiful work. But what does that matter when the story is all but non-existent? Nothing.2/10

BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE was very enjoyable but I expected it to be a lot longer than forty-eight minutes, that's for sure. But other than that, it was a fun ride. I even watched it three times in a row and it never got old. BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE is about a girl named Saya who is part of a demon slaying organisation. She disguises herself as a new school girl on Halloween night when a group of demons start go on their mayhem inside the school. And that's when the fun begins.BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE is filled with animated gore and awesome action scenes. After watching it the first time, you might want to watch it again.