Title: Rise: Blood HunterDirector: Sebastian Gutierrez
Starring: Lucy Liu
Runtime: 122 minutes
Year: 2007
Source: Blockbuster
I like Lucy Liu. She's hot, usually kicks ass, and I have a crush on her. With the mention that Rise:Blood Hunter had a few boob shots featuring Ms. Liu, why resist?
Maybe the fact that their is a ton of vampire movies, rarely anything coming out recently worth renting. Or that I had heard not a single good thing on this release could of been an alarm not to waste the rental fee. But no, I went with the gut feeling that Ms. Liu wouldn't let me down.
Oh, how I was wrong.
If you've ever watched a vampire movie, read a book on the topic, or even caught a late night showing of some amature blood sucking movie, then really- no need to venture here. As this so-called plot rips on everything previously released and fails hard.
We start out with reporter Sadie [Liu] who ends up undead in the morgue after publishing an article on the local goth kids. I guess 'real' vampires still pick up the paper daily, what caring members of the community. Apparently if you wake up in the morgue, don't try to find out how or why you are there, just put it all together within moments and realize you are a vampire, it's the only logical explaination...? Then set out on a quest to kill those responsible, with a drunken slob of a cop as a sidekick? I must mention that Sadie is also the weakest vampire ever to grace my tv, she gets her ass handed to her by mere mortals? Someone obviously failed at The Vampire School of Kicking Ass. This story is all to predictable and lacking anything worth watching. I wish I could point out something positive to say... but even the 'good' parts are close to terrible.
Not recommended.
j.
ps. - The season 2 finale of Dexter just makes the idea of waiting for season 3 equal to sawing my ears off. Hurry up, please.
- I Am Legend was above decent. The good outweighed the bad, but the bad was really bad. No review- as it's been reviewed to death all over the net. :)
5 comments:
Vampire movies have always been my least favorite types of horror films. That probably has to do with the fact that there are so freaking many of them, it makes sense that the majority of them are terrible. And the brilliance of quirky shows like "Buffy" and "Angel" always make the more recent tedious vamp films seem even worse in comparison.
I always reccomend "Fright Night" for people looking for a fun vamp film if you haven't already seen it, that is.
I agree with you on "Dexter." And with the writer's strike seeming to never come to an end we'll probably have to wait longer than is expected.
I've actually never seen Fright Night, I'll add it to my queue. I think it's possible I'm the only person alive that never got into Angel or Buffy [aside from the movie]. When it first aired, I just started working my first job and it always came on when I was working, plus I never bothered to tape it. By the time I started watching a few episodes, I think it was too late into the seasons to really grab me.
Dexter is my favourite series on tv, I honeslty don't really have a tv night to look forward to now, haha.
Unfortunately, I also have seen this one. What really pisses me off is the poster. All of those winged vampires hanging upside down....Never in the fu*king movie.
>The season 2 finale of Dexter just makes the idea of waiting for season 3 equal to sawing my ears off.
I agree! I didn't have a clue how they could possibly top Dexter Season One but goddamn they did it. If Season 3 doesn't start before mid summer I may have to start a "new code" of my own!
I never got into Buffy either. Though I really loved the original movie starring Kristy Swanson.
I share jonathan's general boredom with vampire movies. Zombie flicks are getting to be the same way now--they've both been so done to (un)death, it's hard to find one that's really cool and different.
My favorite modern vampire movie has to be Near Dark, with Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Jenny Wright (Pink Floyd's The Wall's "Dirty Woman"). It came out the same year as The Lost Boys and kind of got overshadowed by it, but it's a wonderful movie and definitely worth seeing.
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