Rating: 5.5/10Genre: Action
Overall value for money and time: 5.0/10
A remake from the animation, a vampire named Saya hunts and slays demons. Enrolled into a high school as a guise in the era of post-WWII Japan, Saya tries to lure out the oldest and strongest demon, Onigen by slaying the city dwellers.
The synopsis and the trailer is the best you can expect out of the movie. Everything else about the movie is a constant downhill. It started off fine, with a considerable amount of suspense and action, but was later dominated by loopholes, cheesy lines and bad acting. This movie has got to be the godmother of intelligence-insulting movies. The story progression was rough and the fight scenes were too "artificial". The oozing of the demon's blood was fairly acceptable at the start, but gradually became a comedy element.
There are simply too many flaws in this movie, which makes it an utter waste of time catching it. The acting was so bad I wanted to leave the theatre in the midst of the movie. The only thing worth watching is the main actress, if you're a fan of hers. She most probably won't disappoint you but don't count on the other elements of the movie. The dialogue was too "forced", they could have just made it a japanese movie and have english subtitles. When the majority of the cast spoke English, it was too unnatural and barely understandable (especially Onigen), which diverted the attention span of its audience. It felt like they were trying so hard to regurgitate the lines that they forgot to evoke expressions with what they said (judging from the movie, the lines were probably memorised and the cast didn't understand what they were saying).
Here's just some major spoilers for you to back up my point. Be warned not to proceed on if you haven't caught the film and want to prove me wrong. When one of the demons was holding on to the other lead (american girl) and escaping from Saya, he jumped from buildings to buildings. When Saya finally managed to save her and the demon tried to escape, he started flying away. Why couldn't he juz have flown in the first place? Too heavy for him? When they did catch up with him, in a very random manner, the demon was slain and Saya fed him with her blood. The scene was cut. What happened after that? Was she trying to save him with her blood?
Saya was almost killed and somehow, the american girl knew how to save her by slashing her palm and feeding her with blood. So, does that mean, Saya saved the demon? And for what purpose? After all that it has been shown, there wasn't a good explanation of demons and vampires. I did catch the anime series before, and it managed to explain most of it as compared to what the movie did. The demons are actually vampires, just like Saya. Without this information, you would think of them as a different species.
The killing of Onigen was so abrupt and illogical. There was the crumbling of a silted house and the next minute, Saya's sword was driven into her stomach. If Onigen could blow a person's head off with a flick of her fingers (shown earlier), why didn't she just do that to the american girl or Saya? And when the american girl was being thrown from a few feet from the ground at the ending scene, she was so lucky to have fell right into a pool of water. Onigen was aiming to throw her there?
The survival of Onigen's right-hand man was highly laughable. When Saya pierced his eye, her master, Kato who was holding on so tightly to him for a good 5 minutes or so decided to release him once his eye was pierced so that he could run away and fight Saya another day.
There are many other ridiculous scenes in the movie and should you decide to catch it, you can challenge yourself to finding them and contributing to the comments. If this review hasn't saved you from wasting two hours of your time, I hope I'm wrong when you do actually catch it.
No comments:
Post a Comment