5/5 David Lynch meets Clive Barker meets Anne Rice.
  by the smart guy
It's a very well acted horror movie that is in the style of Lynch, Barker, and Rice movies. The movie is slow paced, atmospheric, shadowy, and often bloody. The action and violence comes in brief spurts.

The plot is a little convoluted at first but that is what made the movie so spooky. The suspense, dark brooding cinematography, and movie score are brilliant.

The plot includes Lucy Liu rising from the tomb and seeking vengeance on the merciless vampires that turned her into one. In the process she saves victims and becomes involved with a police officer that lost his daughter to one of the vampires.

Very good movie. It is recommended but it is not for the squeamish. A-

2/5 Lucy Liu makes a very attractive looking corpse.
  by seraphcelene (Carson, CA United States)
Lucy Liu makes a very attractive looking corpse. Unfortunately, her dainty, kick-ass hotness isn't enough to save Rise: Blood Hunter from its needlessly convoluted plot and holes in logic big enough to drive a bus through. The film is dark and gritty, everything washed in shadows and blues to remind us that we are now in no man's land where vampires are sadistic but not quite equipped to deal with their cravings, fangless as they are. The vampires make an appropriately bloody mess of their meals, leaving body parts strewn across crime scenes, aided by various accoutrement to make up for what nature failed to give them.

Rise: Blood Hunter remains faithful to vampire lore only moderately, which really isn't such a problem, but the fact that the movie is bloody boring to boot makes it par for the course in the reinvention of the genre that seems underway. Everyone wants to shake things up, but go too far or not far enough.

Sadie Blake as our inquisitive girl reporter, happy-go-lucky and clueless about the darkest part of the city's underbelly goes from flowered skirts and denim jackets to a post-transformation ensemble of skin tight jeans and a cheeky haircut that shouts, I am a New Woman, Beware! Trained by a semi-mystic guru in the arts of killing vampires, Sadie dispatches her enemies (in this case the pack of fiends who turned her, so it's your standard revenge plot) with laughable ease. Michael Chiklis, our brave and emotionally wounded detective, gums up the works for her just a bit, but is almost a non-entity, popping up randomly and not doing much except pissing the other cops off.

There's a lot of unresolved plot elements, including the true motives of Sadie's benefactor, and fellow vampire, Arturo. But I suppose they're leaving all of that for a direct-to-DVD sequel seeing as how Sadie,begging to die and stabbed through the heart (we assume) with a silver crossbow bolt by Detective Rawlins busts out of the morgue for the second time just before the credits roll.

It's a pretty lame movie and watching it reminded me, AGAIN, of how much I hate the Sci-Fi channel these days. I still don't get the point of dropping a quality show like Farscape in favor of a string of bad movies and a couple of hours of WWE.

2/5 Movie Review
  by James W. Pixley (Corona, CA United States)
This is going to be the shortest review I have ever done!

This film was a ...................... sleeper. It is so awful that I can remember NOTHING from it and I have suffered through it twice!

3/5 Rise: Blood Hunter (Unrated/Undead Edition)
  by John H. Fox (Gardena, Ca)
Rise: Blood Hunter (Unrated Undead Edition)
I first caught a glimpse of this movie on the Sci-Fi Channel and I was intrigued. I purchased it from Amazon and for the most part enjoyed it. Lucy Liu was awesome as a modern day reporter that is turned into a Sexy Vampire out for revenge against the Vampires that turned her. Michael Chiklis (Fantastic 4, The Shield, & The Commish) was great as an alcholic, revenge seeking detective who's daughter get's turned by the same group.
The only problem I had was the filming jumped all over the place without any segue (Example: one minute Lucy is in the trunk of a car and without any rhyme or reason she is back in a bar. Then later on she is breaking oyt of the trunk).
It was still enjoyable as a Vampire Film.

5/5 I Love it for all the Wrong Reasons 'BD Review'
  by A Customer (L.A.)
Pretentiously Arty and $lick enough this film has lofty aims and dreams of Lynch and Neo-Noir, A combination of Cop and Vampire films takes a slow but jerky path with lots of sexual focus in story, content and style. I mean it's a hot time in the vamp film tonight.
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