After a series of gang battles in New York, an undercover cop inside the local mafia finds that a vampiress targeting the gang has turned his boss into a creature like her and making the remaining members into vampires, forcing them to team up to put an end to the reign of destruction.For the most part, this was pretty decent for these kinds of vampire films. Most of this is based on a great atmosphere that gives it a fun factor as simply dripping with cheese. It's mostly specific to the middle where the powers of the vampires are being discovered which is fun to see those scenes as it's the extraordinary happening under normal conditions as it's new for non-vampires to be acting in this way, and that leads to some comedic, over-the-top moments. Seeing them go crazy after being shot to pieces, dripping with the blood from the bullet wounds and only laughing it off as well as the sequences where they go out of their way for meat are examples of this, but it's nothing new for the events that transpire to happen as vampires. There's also some decent action sequences which are always fun and enjoyable, with a stellar car chase through the city following the interruption at the dockyard, the series of high- impact car crashes that result from their inability to drive, the gunfight at the strip-club is all-out fun and the ending in the city streets is simply spectacular with the vampire battles on the rooftop and then the big crash with the bus down below. It was also pretty erotic at times and was nice to see it sprinkled pretty regularly, including a really nice sex scene in a bathtub and another one in a hotel room that is really nice and actually genuinely erotic. The last big plus is that the gore is nice and pretty bloody at times from the different wounds and feasted-upon bodies to gunshots, while there's also a really great effect of a vampire literally melting away in a long, extended sequence that is pretty bloody, from the welts on the arm to the burnt skin and way the body is distorted and melts away look really great. All told, this was a pretty decent vampire entry while there are still a few problems. The biggest problem here is that quite honestly, this just doesn't know what it wants to be. This doesn't know if it wants to be a horror movie, a mob movie or a comedy since it tries really hard to be all of the above but just doesn't come together very tightly for much of the time. There never really is anything here that appeals to fans of all the different genres melded in here which is what's needed to give it a bigger appeal, jumping around to the various different plot lines and not really being integrated all that well. The length is another major obstacle. This is really stretched out, and at times is a little painful to sit through as most of this is pointless dialogue and it's flawed premise at play. However, these are all to hold against the film.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Full Nudity, Graphic Violence and a mild sex scene.

Before Twilight we still had the forbidden vampire/human love....but thankfully there was no sparkling and there was blood....lots of it. Vampires did what they were supposed to do....kill.Innocent Blood is a surprisingly interesting take on this notion. A peaceful female vampire who only feeds on the blood of the evil and a police officer after her after a high profile murder come together to face a common foe.LaPaglia I always refer to as the poor mans Bill Pullman since they always remind me of one another, but for the right reasons. He is likable and this is essential for any leading man. Does LaPaglia take this opportunity and run with it? No! But he is entertaining none the less. Its our lady vamp who steals show, her performance is fantastic. She remains feminine and even fragile for most of the film but still maintains an animalistic ferocity that is required for the blood sucker role.This movie breaks down no walls and is nothing we for the most part haven't seen before but its refreshing, well acted and with a sweet ending.Its a shame you have to look so hard for other movies including members of the movies cast because most are excellent but badly underused within the industry.

I hate seeing my cousins taken out by a vampire, but it sure makes for a good movie, especially when all your favorite gangster stars are there.There's Richie, Rocky, Carmine, & Paulie from the Sopranos (David Proval, Rocco Sisto, Tony Lip & Tony Sirico), Chazz Palminteri, Robert Loggia, Luis Guzmán, and Anthony LaPaglia in a cop role that he never imagined. There's even funny man Don Rickles as the mob lawyer.If you look close you can fine Yoda, Sam Raimi, and Dario Argento, too.Yes, it has porn stars like Teri Weigel, and a whole lot of babes that took it off to just appear in this film.But, the story was funny with the star of La Femme Nikita, Anne Parillaud, as the vampire that needs sex and blood to survive.Well worth the time invested.

I love this movie, it has a great plot line, the acting is top notch, and there is not one bad thing I could say about this movie. I was watching my VHS today and couldn't help but think that is so much like GTA 3 but GTA 3 was made eight years later. Then I got on here and made the movie video game connections. The mafia crime boss in the movie played by Robert Loggia is called Sal or Sallie the name in GTA 3 is Salvator or Sal. The girls (love interest) in both are Marie and Maria. Also Robert Loggia played the voice of a crooked cop Ray in GTA 3. If you can rent it I seriously suggest you watch the movie and try to remember it was made eight years before the video game. Perhapse it is just coincidence but even the street shots remind me of the game. Maybe the folks at Rockstar got some ideas from the movie, but I think it is better than any crime/horror you will ever see.