Blade: The Littlest Vampire

Alright, so I know it's an anime or something, but before the film began I knew nothing, except the CGI in the trailer was awful.

So there's this chick who is half human half vampire or something, and someone killed all she loved, so she wants to kill them, to get to the baddie she kills bottom of the barrel vampires for an American team, always in Japan. She goes to an airbase run by the US where some killings have happened, meets an American girl, defends her as two other vampire girls try to kill her, then Colin Salmon turns into some stop motion looking CGI vampire beast and takes the American girl, Saya our hero kills him easily, and then they find the baddie, and big fight with 'shocking' revelation.

Whilst missing the pre-finale monologue due to a cinema problem might seem bad, honestly, I know we missed nothing what so ever, the fight came on, you knew why they fought, because every film needs a climax, and who would win, every film needs an ending, and the idea of killing the hero doesn't work since you never care for the character, and as such the expositional sequences are dull and tedious.

The action is mishandled, jumping between jump scares and hand held cameras, the wire hack and slash nature feels very odd, American meets Asian cinema, and none of them winning, add to that the ridiculous CGI blood, which there is a lot, sphericaly perfect, but distractingly badly handled, and takes a lot away from the violence of the film, what could have been a graphic and shocking film is a stupid and light hearted action film with limited amounts of anything, and not in the Punisher War Zone way.

It feels like if Blade was set in 1970, and lets face it, if you see this film there's only a few reasons, you like the anime, you like the 18 rating with Blood in the film's title, or you have a thing for asian school girls, and who doesn't, but in the end you're left wanting a lot, and it has a feeling of Miho the Movie, without and of the quality of Sin City.

6/10