Just a mediocre vampire flick although the word vampire is never spoken throughout this flick. The story is very simple. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu)is a journalist researching a bloody cult but is going too far with her research by visiting a house. Once in the basement she discovers blood and death and is captured to be transformed into a vampire. From there on she's out for revenge to kill those who turned her.Of course this flick is full of silly lines but do offer a few bloody and even messy shots and here and there we do have some nudity even from Lucia herself. You can guess it all what is happening and it doesn't offer anything new to the genre. Funny to see is the cameo of Marilyn Manson as a bartender but you have to watch closely because he doesn't have any lenses on. Ideal for a Saturday night enjoyment. Gore 1/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

Well, I didn't know what I was getting into when I killed some time with this flick.Lucy Liu plays a clichéd vampire-turned-vampire huntress, spouting hokey lines, and unconvincingly struggling with vampiric feelings of guilt or anger or revenge - or whatever feelings those are that make the good vampires brood. It's a very weak script,with cardboard-cutout stereotypical characters, such as an alcoholic grieving cop that becomes an ally.It's bad, but not painfully bad. And it gets an extra star from me for that incredibly hot and sexy scene with Liu and Cameron Richardson. That scene comes very early in the film, so you don't have to waste your time watching the entire thing.

It seems like half the actresses in Hollywood (including the usually sensible Charlize Theron) have ended up doing movies like this, where they are superhuman in some unusual way and have to tackle bizarre forces. Sadly, I haven't seen a really good one yet -- and yes, that includes the sappy TOMB RAIDER and even the halfway passable UNDERWORLD and RESIDENT EVIL. Liu, who obviously did this turkey strictly for the paycheck, plays a reporter who investigates a friend's murder. She ends up in the claws of vampires, who turn her into one of their kind. She then goes on the hunt for those who turned her. I could watch Liu read a phone book, but I hate to see her wasted in tripe like this. If you must see this type of movie, I suggest avoiding all the ones that have starred females. Instead, stick with the first BLADE. That one is truly kick-ass.

This awful film proves two thing… 1. Lucy Liu isn't much of an actress.2. Lucy Liu isn't really that pretty.Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a reporter for a independent newspaper in Los Angeles. She specializes in getting inside the city's subcultures and her most recent article was about the world of young, goth, vampire wannabes. The computer guy at the paper has uncovered something connected to these goth kids, but Sadie doesn't care. To her, the story is over. Then the computer guy disappears and Sadie sees in the paper that one of the goth kids has turned up dead. She tries to figure out what's going on and, wouldn't you know it, she runs into some real life undead vampires. The vampires try to make a meal out of Sadie but she ends up becoming one of them. After Sadie figures out what she is, she tries to kill herself and somehow ends up in the care of Arturo (Julio Oscar Mechoso), who arms Sadie with a hand-held crossbow and little arrows and sends her out to destroy the vampires who ruined Sadie's life. There's also a cop (Michael Chiklis) who gets involved tracking down the people who killed his daughter, without knowing they're vampires. I should point out the movie begins with Sadie already halfway through her revenge quest and it splashes flashbacks throughout the story to detail how and why Sadie is what she is.Rise - Blood Hunter is bad in just about every way a modern film can be bad. The production values are okay, but the substance and style of the movie are terrible. The characters are two dimensional, at best. The dialog is lame. There are plot holes you can drive a tank through. Large elements of the story don't make any sense. And worse of all, the movie kills any possibility you might care what happens to its main character.The gorgeous Carla Gugino as a lady vampire and Michael Chiklis as the cop are the only actors in this mess who manage to not lower themselves to the level of this rubbish. Their performances are much better than their characters but their talent only emphasizes how poor everything else is in the film. James D'Arcy as the head vampire is the same sexy, existential bloodsucker we've seen over and over and over before and he does nothing to outshine the generic nature of his role.Lucy Liu, however, gives the worst performance of the whole movie. Any time she tries to protect some emotional extreme, like fear or anger, it's simply painful to watch. And when she's not trying to emote, she's either completely nondescript before she becomes a vampire or she tries to pull off this utterly contrived and unbelievable badass attitude. You almost feel sorry for Liu at times because the director or a producer should have done something to try and cover up how terrible she is in this. They should have tweaked the script or done something to disguise her lack of talent, but instead they just put it on display over and over again.Even though Liu has been something of a sex symbol, Rise - Blood Hunter takes that image and defecates all over it. What this movie proves is that Liu isn't pretty. She is striking, with distinctive and unusual features that if you capture them in the right way, at the right angle and from the right distance, Liu can be attractive. But if she's not framed in just the right way, her features become awkward and odd and unappealing. Add to that the fact that she is frighteningly skinny in this movie. Liu is naked at several points in the story and she doesn't look good. There's a scene where she's nude and sitting up and you can see her backbone jutting out of her body like the spines on a Stegosaurus. Ick.And what the heck is the deal with the title? On the DVD I watched, It's not just Rise. It's not just Blood Hunter. It's not Rise of the Blood Hunter. And it's really not Rise - Blood Hunter. I'm putting the hyphen in there because it looks like it should be there, but the in the film credits it's just Rise Blood Hunter. Somebody needed to pay more attention in English class.This is a bad movie. It has naked Lucy Liu in it but even if that seems like something you'd be interested in, it won't be anything you'll enjoy.