Blood has the plodding, labored feel of a story trapped in two-dimensions and characters who are all surface.

| Jan 24, 2020

Blood is a nice antidote to your Twilight blues. No shiny vampires here, and all the girls have traded their mopey diaries for samurai swords.

| May 24, 2018

The fight choreography is satisfying (if not revolutionary), the few dashes of CGI have a rubbery aftertaste, and Edo-era fetishists (quaint villages with everything made of rope and bamboo!) get their fix in an extensive series of flashback battles.

| Feb 27, 2018

This live-action adaptation of Hiroyuki Kitakubo's popular anime one-off from 2000 appears to have been made by a company of finches tweeting, "Cheap...cheap."

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The dialogue is horrible (sample exchange: "Little bitch is out of control"), the acting is worse.

| Aug 26, 2011

... a bizarre mix of sensibilities that falls apart into a mess of cultural cues. The result is as tone deaf as the confused accents.

| Oct 19, 2009

Feels like one of those Underworld sequels, but with a samurai-wielding Japanese schoolgirl instead of the tight leather outfits . . .

Full Review | Oct 14, 2009

Really, is there supposed to be any entertainment value in this thing, or is it meant to be a ponderously stupid endurance test?

| Original Score: F | Jul 29, 2009

So laughably awful that it easily qualifies for so-bad-it's-good status.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 20, 2009

Despite inserting a jumble of backstory into his live-action take on an action experiment from Japanese animation studio Production I.G, director Chris Nahon captures some of the visceral thrills of the nine-year-old anime.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2009

The best thing that can come from this film is that it will be so poorly received both by critics and audiences that it will put a damper on Hollywood's current interest in remaking anime.

| Jul 16, 2009

As good as any Hollywood movie, which is to say it's got lousy visual effects and generic dialogue. Since we're already forgiving that anyway, there's enough engaging action to make it plenty fun and entertaining.

| Jul 15, 2009

Slashing swords, splashing blood, and flashy CGI - not to mention a hot chick in school uniform - sound like a cool combination, but the life bleeds out of Blood: The Last Vampire long before the final reel.

| Jul 15, 2009

If you're not familiar with this kind of live-action anime in general, Blood isn't a bad place to start, but for diehard fans it's a lot of been-there-done-that.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 12, 2009

An stew of international genre influences that plays like a Vietnam-era cross between Blade and 온라인카지노추천's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with elaborate martial arts sequences.

| Jul 12, 2009

Ever wish for a cinematic slushie of Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the cheesiest vampire movie ever made? Welcome to Blood: The Last Vampire.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2009

Often-unwatchably dim.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Watch True Blood, Let the Right One In or Twilight instead. Or wait for Thirst or New Moon or Daybreakers or ...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Not only isn't the new effort up to the standards of the anime, it's bloody awful by any standard.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 10, 2009

Blood: The Last Vampire feels both derivative and strangely amateurish, an awkward blend of Hong Kong-style combat set pieces and clumsy English-language dialogue scenes that verge on laughable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2009