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Not seeing any previews of this movie, I didn't have a chance to form any sort of opinion before watching. Though this is yet another great performance by Lucy Lu, I fear it is the only reason to actually watch Rise.
I feel the storyline was the outcome of a drunken night of watching Blade and Buffy. I do enjoy seeing vampire flicks, especially when they stray from the 'norm' and go back to their folkloric roots, but this one jumped around and at times did neither.
Sadie (Lu) is a reporter/vampire slayer who was turned into what she hunted against her will. The movie starts out with a prostitute trying to pick up a john in a pub when Sadie offers a better deal. She then takes her home to a waiting vampire, gets information from him, which was obviously their deal, of the location of another vampire and then she kills him and lets her go. After being kidnapped and turned into a vampire she spends the remainder of the film hunting them down until she gets to the one that 'killed' her.
What I found now that I sit and reflect on it, is that I'm left with a few unanswered questions, maybe just plot holes:
How did she know exactly how to kill the first vampire at the beginning, and yet tries to take her own life by jumping off a bridge
After she jumps off the bridge, she is then in the home of another vampire who tells her that she can't die that way 1) shouldn't she know that already? 2) when she 'comes to' she's obviously walking outside in the sunlight, while thanking him and his wife/mother/sister who is ALSO a vampire and in the sun .and yet later on we see that she tells the cop that she can't go after Bishop until 'after sunset'
Though they kept the tradition that vampires have no reflections, it appears that for all accounts and purposes they are no different from humans (save for the fact that they drink blood). It was a complete letdown and if not for the fact that Lucy Lu is nude often and has a semi-lesbian scene at the start I wouldn't have finished it.
My Rating: 2/10 (and I'm being very kind)
Not seeing any previews of this movie, I didn't have a chance to form any sort of opinion before watching. Though this is yet another great performance by Lucy Lu, I fear it is the only reason to actually watch Rise.
I feel the storyline was the outcome of a drunken night of watching Blade and Buffy. I do enjoy seeing vampire flicks, especially when they stray from the 'norm' and go back to their folkloric roots, but this one jumped around and at times did neither.
Sadie (Lu) is a reporter/vampire slayer who was turned into what she hunted against her will. The movie starts out with a prostitute trying to pick up a john in a pub when Sadie offers a better deal. She then takes her home to a waiting vampire, gets information from him, which was obviously their deal, of the location of another vampire and then she kills him and lets her go. After being kidnapped and turned into a vampire she spends the remainder of the film hunting them down until she gets to the one that 'killed' her.
What I found now that I sit and reflect on it, is that I'm left with a few unanswered questions, maybe just plot holes:
How did she know exactly how to kill the first vampire at the beginning, and yet tries to take her own life by jumping off a bridge
After she jumps off the bridge, she is then in the home of another vampire who tells her that she can't die that way 1) shouldn't she know that already? 2) when she 'comes to' she's obviously walking outside in the sunlight, while thanking him and his wife/mother/sister who is ALSO a vampire and in the sun .and yet later on we see that she tells the cop that she can't go after Bishop until 'after sunset'
Though they kept the tradition that vampires have no reflections, it appears that for all accounts and purposes they are no different from humans (save for the fact that they drink blood). It was a complete letdown and if not for the fact that Lucy Lu is nude often and has a semi-lesbian scene at the start I wouldn't have finished it.
My Rating: 2/10 (and I'm being very kind)