Rise: Blood Hunter (Unrated Undead Edition)
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Actor: Allan Rich, Cameron Richardson (II), Lucy Liu, Robert Forster, Samantha SheltonBrand: FORSTER,ROBERT
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Rise: Blood Hunter (Unrated Undead Edition)
DVD Review: We now return to watching Lucy Lui's film career go circling down the toilet
Summary: 2 Stars
As I get older and older and get more and more wrinkly, I start to vindictively resent awful films. After all, I only have so much time left on this earth. So what did I ever do to Lucy Lui that she'd blatantly steal away two hours of my life? Lucy Lui's movie career continues its downspiraling with this would-be horrorfest, RISE: BLOOD HUNTER. Except that the horror elements are tame as hell, and the film about as erotic as plucking your grandma's nose hairs (hopefully, that's not a turn-on for many). And, yes, there is plenty of tittilation here, some of it provided by Lucy Lui herself, who flaunts it in the buff in a few scenes. So, that's something. Alas, Carla Gugino, who is even more delectable, doesn't bestow a damn peep. You might be able to sense the quality of this film from the fact that I'm focusing so much on the nudity instead of, say, the plot or the acting.
Well, here's the plot. Reporter Sadie Blake (Lui) awakens in a morgue to find a toetag on her toe and herself become one of the bloodsucking undead. So, naturally, she wants some payback. In essence, that's the movie.
Now, the acting. Robert Forster has a cameo at the beginning, and then it struck him that sniffs at the Oscar Award don't come with cinematic skunks like this, and accordingly jetted. Michael Chiklis, usually a dependable thespian, ventures into sullen Michael Madsen territory as a boozy cop whose daughter had become vampire fodder, so he's all drinky and angry. Michael Chiklis, in case I was being too subtle, has been better. One saving grace in this movie is the ever-so-hot Carla Gugino, who doesn't get a lot of screen time yet manages to salvage some depth in her character. James D'Arcy plays the lead villain, and should be hissed at for not playing a good enough lead villain. Lucy Lui tries her darndest but, really, you can't make a cake out of crap, or if you try, you end up with cake that tastes like crap (and where's the fun in that?). Lucy, in desperate, desperate need of a good script and decent budgeting, ends up languishing in acting hell. Still, I give her props for trying, but then I wrest away the props because, in the first place, she should've known better than to sign her John Hancock to this movie contract. Lucy, remember the good old days, when you were making Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever and Code Name - The Cleaner? Thank the bejesus television is good to her.
RISE thought it'd score on the hip factor by boasting a novelty casting of Nick Lachey (who plays a stooge, which is just about right) and Marilyn Manson (he's the bartender). But think again. On a truly sad note, this was Mako's final live action picture appearance. Rest easy, Mako.
Disjointed mess, disjointed mess. The film tries to do a PULP FICTION by jumping back and forth between the present and the past, but it does so without narrative cohesion or flow. It attempts to achieve the melancholy flavor of The Crow (Miramax/Dimension Collector's Series), but miserably fails. It's advertised as a supernatural revenge thriller, but whiffs on two of those three descriptives, because the supernatural content is dismal and the film isn't at all thrilling. On the other hand, Lucy does get her revenge on.
Again, I'm sure the meager budgeting forced the writers to forego the more sensational vampire effects. But not having the showy stuff should've given these writers all the more incentive to come up with a better story. Didn't happen. Plenty of dead spots in an already lackluster and lengthy film equals a hellacious dissing at the box office. Man, this movie dragged excruciatingly! Also, I expected Lucy Lui to be in there, kicking serious nosferatu tail. And while she succeeds in offing her targets, the manner in which she does it is simply frustrating. She pretty much just strolls up to them and shoots her crossbow, or has a drink with them and shoots her crossbow. Wesley Snipes and Kate Beckinsale must be laughing themselves silly.
It's a different breed of vampires, too, and not so satisfying. This type doesn't come equipped with fangs, and are forced to employ a cutting tool to slash their victim's throat. No changing to mist or bats, no children of the night. They're stronger than humans, but you don't see Lucy's character, Sadie, lifting dudes off their feet with one hand. Sadie seems to be immune to sunlight and crosses. And, apparently, in this reality, vampires are easy to knock out. That, or Sadie Blake is the sorriest vampire ever turned, getting knocked out and captured a busload of times. On the other hand, she makes out with a hot girl. So, again, that's something.
By the way, the bonus dvd stuff includes four 2-minute behind-the-scenes featurettes ("Blood," "Sex & Murder," "Location, Location," and "Stunts); a Storyboard to Screen Comparison; and the theatrical trailer. In its paltriness, the extra features seem to be hinting, "Why bother?"
Holy smokes, what a crap dvd.
Description of Rise: Blood Hunter (Unrated Undead Edition)
No Description Available.Genre: Horror
Rating: UN
Release Date: 9-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD
Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) dies and comes backs to life several times in Rise?Blood Hunter, which gives this revenge tale impetus to continue perhaps longer than it needs to. At over two hours long, this film, written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez (Snakes on A Plane), is beautifully filmed and acted at times but drags due to the drawn out story of a LA Weekly reporter who seeks revenge on her murderer, the vampire head of an underground blood-sucking cult. This handsome monster, Bishop (James D'Arcy), charms women, kidnaps them, and slits their throats with his claw-shaped necklace, stumping the entire LAPD minus Clyde Rawline (Michael Chilkis), a hard-drinking policeman who eventually teams up with Blake to hunt and destroy the vampiric ringleader. The scenes depicting initial doses of violence, like when Blake wakes up in a metal casket at the morgue, or when she's originally killed in Bishop's bed, covered in black trash bags to avoid bloodstains, feature crisp film footage awash in blue and red, setting a semi-poetic mood. Mostly, Rise?Blood Hunter operates on the vampire tales' conflation of sex and death, taking a sexy tone throughout, especially when Sadie or her fellow vampire, Collette (Cameron Richardson), feast on blood then strip off their sullied clothing. Blake's vengeance underpins her rebellious attitude, as she shoots her crossbow at each person she meets on the trail to Bishop. Though Rise?Blood Hunter is not a classic in the genre, it is enticing to add Lucy Liu to the list of gorgeous vampire slayers. ?Trinie Dalton
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