Stylish but barely mediocre overall

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Sent to a US Air Force Base in Japan, a demon slayer studying a recent outbreak of supposed demonic activity comes face to face with the creature that killed her father years ago and sets her and her new friend off on a blood-stained path of vengeance to stop their nefarious plans.This one was a ton of fun as a lot happened in this one. One of the strongest aspects of this one is the rather strong mythology created for this which is a fine adaptation of the manga. By carrying over the concept of the demon society and how they work here by including the prophecy coming back and their social order coming into play, this one creates a rather strong setup for the films' better feature as this provides the film with lots of action. These are where the film really scores as these are incredibly fun, from the opening battle on the train, the first battle with the demonic students which is a fine sword fight and the grand street battle from the bar that fronts as a hideout for the creatures. Featuring the change into the creatures who change her around the building as well as the great encounters in the alleyways, the series of swordplay-infused martial arts prowess displayed in the lengthy battle that takes place there as the pouring rain and neon-lit signs provide a great backdrop for it to generate the rousing battles. The rooftop escapade trying to recapture the hostage amongst the rooftops of the village leading to the thrilling truck chase on the Army base and finally spilling into the mountain ravine which really serves to provide this one with tons of action. As well, the finale swordfight is a spectacular old-school style display of swordplay which lets their skills get pushed to the forefront as well as showing off plenty of filmmaking prowess with the dynamic look and feel that makes the scene look all the more impressive. Given that, alongside the huge amounts of bloodshed, there's literally a ton of things to like about it. There wasn't much to dislike here due to that, although it does have a somewhat minor issue at hand. This comes from the graphic effects on display as the film doesn't do a very good job editing its action scenes and the use of CGI for all of its bloodshed is a joke. The choppy, fragmented editing occurs when something happens in this one as that's during the action scenes making them nearly impossible to make out, while the CGI is awful and distracting for not blending into the scene properly. Sure, these don't mean much but at least there's enough here to bring it down slightly.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

I could already tell it was going to be a little far fetched about 15 seconds into the movie, when the Japanese lady wasn't getting molested on the train.(Yes I know she is probably Korean not Japanese) Was kinda funny to watch a fight seen with ten guys in it pretending to be 50 so you can count as each of them is killed 5 times.Bad animation.The only plus side to the movie is Gianna Jun is pretty hot.Who knows it might get better to be honest I never watched the whole thing.

first of all, why did they have a korean girl play saya. it's originally a Japanese series by Japanese writers and directors, so it just doesn't make sense. i got a big laugh out of the scene when saya first went to class and they said "they let a jap in here" ... NOT A JAP! secondly, they followed the storyline of the anime too closely. basically just adding the stuff about onigen and making into a live-action film. it would seem that in 90 minutes of live action, they could have gotten more creative, especially since blood+ was only about thirty something minutes. a real disappointment all around. in other words, dumb.

Snuffing Marines on OkinawaI am absolutely amazed at how vital the vampire meme is. It ranges from deeply sexual expression to a generic stand-in for the "other" against which you do battle. In this project, it is so generic it is pushed aside so that sharper archetypes can be brought to the fore.Here we have a Japanese Buffy, though I assume her character predates that TeeVee show. She is a 400 year old samurai master in a 15 year old body. The plot has her in a Japanese sailor school uniform. She battles evil ninja zombies, sometimes as lumbering zombies, sometimes as flying beasts, and sometimes as ordinary sword-wielding masked ninjas. The disparately is not explained, nor does it seem to need to be.This was made before Japan announced a major re-arming of its military, so there is an odd setting of the story. They wanted military gear and your typical stupid general. So they set this on an American military base in Japan. This allows some background guys, gaijin with dark suits that act like Matrix types. This alien overlap: Americans in Japan and Vampires in the world, should not be lost on us. A nitwit American (girl) is assigned as sidekick.Nor is the girl-woman business. Turns out that the master vampire is revealed to be her mother, who she angrily kills. I do not know the amine on which this is based. Usually the nubile sexuality of the young girls are the whole point. That sailor uniform is such a strong indicator that the profound modesty of the girl here is shocking. The body shape is completely hidden in a skirt below the knees with a blouse buttoned to chin. There is no body display at all which makes me wonder who the target audience was. Nobody but preteen boys would be interested in this junk.She does have that smoldering look, head down, eyes raised with menacing knowledge of absolute control. Maybe the filmmakers figured that was enough.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.