Okay, so this movie is basically 88 minutes of Milla Jovovich running around with swords and guns and sword-guns while dressed in skintight clothes while killing everyone she can find. WHAT IS NOT TO LIKE?!
Actually, a lot.
This movie was made in 2005. Sure, lifelike animation still wasn't perfect in 05, but it was better than most of the CGI shots used in this movie. The building in the beginning looks so fake it could make a seasoned animator cry. There's a shot where Violet (the main character, btw) goes to drive her motercycle up a building, and there's a CGI still shot of what looks to be a ramp. For some reason, the view is shaky. It's a CGI shot, and the view is shaky. There's no camera to shoot the scene, why is the view shaky?
Another major issue, and something that really, REALLY irritates me is the use of blood in this movie. Now, I won't explicitly come out and say "lack of blood", because there is blood in the movie. It's the use of this blood that pisses me off. There's a scene where Violet cuts a samurai sword in half basically, kills a dude, knocks a guy over and grabs the piece of sword she cut off and stabs the guy with it. Now, this goes into his neck. This isn't a cyborg or a synthetic human, this is a full-blooded human being. There is NO BLOOD spurting out of the side of this guy's neck, where half a sword is hanging out. Yet we get a shot of Violet's hand, and sure enough it's pissing out blood.
Early in the movie, we see Violet undergo a "blood test", so to speak, to see if she is a "hemophage" (which is like a vampire). If these kinds of humans didn't have blood, she never would have gotten as far as she did. So we know not only hemophages bleed.
And then there's hemophage on hemophage combat. Once again, NO BLOOD. Yet Violet can bleed in the movie; it's kind of important near the end.
The story was kind of average. I wasn't expecting much from that department. The dialogue could have used work. Once again, didn't matter. I was looking forward to a sci-fi Kill Billesque romp with blood and carnage... But I only really got carnage. And not to menion lackluster CGI and honestly kinda subpar fight choreography and occasionally shaky camera, even when there's no camera involved.
This thing is a disappointent wrapped in sex. Try the Director's Cut.
I gotta say, this let me down.
Okay, so this movie is basically 88 minutes of Milla Jovovich running around with swords and guns and sword-guns while dressed in skintight clothes while killing everyone she can find. WHAT IS NOT TO LIKE?!
Actually, a lot.
This movie was made in 2005. Sure, lifelike animation still wasn't perfect in 05, but it was better than most of the CGI shots used in this movie. The building in the beginning looks so fake it could make a seasoned animator cry. There's a shot where Violet (the main character, btw) goes to drive her motercycle up a building, and there's a CGI still shot of what looks to be a ramp. For some reason, the view is shaky. It's a CGI shot, and the view is shaky. There's no camera to shoot the scene, why is the view shaky?
Another major issue, and something that really, REALLY irritates me is the use of blood in this movie. Now, I won't explicitly come out and say "lack of blood", because there is blood in the movie. It's the use of this blood that pisses me off. There's a scene where Violet cuts a samurai sword in half basically, kills a dude, knocks a guy over and grabs the piece of sword she cut off and stabs the guy with it. Now, this goes into his neck. This isn't a cyborg or a synthetic human, this is a full-blooded human being. There is NO BLOOD spurting out of the side of this guy's neck, where half a sword is hanging out. Yet we get a shot of Violet's hand, and sure enough it's pissing out blood.
Early in the movie, we see Violet undergo a "blood test", so to speak, to see if she is a "hemophage" (which is like a vampire). If these kinds of humans didn't have blood, she never would have gotten as far as she did. So we know not only hemophages bleed.
And then there's hemophage on hemophage combat. Once again, NO BLOOD. Yet Violet can bleed in the movie; it's kind of important near the end.
The story was kind of average. I wasn't expecting much from that department. The dialogue could have used work. Once again, didn't matter. I was looking forward to a sci-fi Kill Billesque romp with blood and carnage... But I only really got carnage. And not to menion lackluster CGI and honestly kinda subpar fight choreography and occasionally shaky camera, even when there's no camera involved.
This thing is a disappointent wrapped in sex. Try the Director's Cut.