I had high hopes for this movie. A vampire movie with teen influencers and Thomas Jane as some gritty vampire hunter, it had everything to be some kind of new generation Fright Night or something.
Sadly most of it is just so poorely executed. The story is rather simple. Influencers get lured into a vampire lord lair because he need them for something, they stumble across Thomas Jane character wich happen to be on a hunt for this vampire for reasons said in the movie. Yet the movie try to give us a ton of exposition on this old centuries war between Vampires and Humans, dumping exposition after exposition yet it just make the whole thing so convuluted and you never actually feel like it develope neither characters well.
The rest is just rather poorly executed. Everytime the movie had a good idea, it seem to never fully develop it. The characters all (exept Thomas Jane) are pretty blank and uninteresting, despite the solid cast of enjoyable B actors. Action is nothing great but ain't terrible, music is all over the place. Some weird special and sound effects are added to make it feel "more video game" or computer-like, i dunno, but it end up just feeling weird.
Yet despite all these flaws i can't say i "disliked" the movie. I was just disapointed cause i was hoping it would be cool super fun vampire comedy, but it turn out just being "meh". That said i do have a high tolerance to B and C movies. For me to really dislike a movie it need to be very offensive and boring in term of story and characters (Black Christmas 2019) or VERY badly made up (some asylum movies...).
With this one i was watching it without looking at my phone or hoping it would end soon, chuckling a bit in some rare moments, other times just telling myself "ok thats a bit dumb..." but it was ...ok. Thats why ill be generous and give it a 6 for slightly above average. But i fully understand peoples giving it a 4 ot 5.
Sadly most of it is just so poorely executed. The story is rather simple. Influencers get lured into a vampire lord lair because he need them for something, they stumble across Thomas Jane character wich happen to be on a hunt for this vampire for reasons said in the movie. Yet the movie try to give us a ton of exposition on this old centuries war between Vampires and Humans, dumping exposition after exposition yet it just make the whole thing so convuluted and you never actually feel like it develope neither characters well.
The rest is just rather poorly executed. Everytime the movie had a good idea, it seem to never fully develop it. The characters all (exept Thomas Jane) are pretty blank and uninteresting, despite the solid cast of enjoyable B actors. Action is nothing great but ain't terrible, music is all over the place. Some weird special and sound effects are added to make it feel "more video game" or computer-like, i dunno, but it end up just feeling weird.
Yet despite all these flaws i can't say i "disliked" the movie. I was just disapointed cause i was hoping it would be cool super fun vampire comedy, but it turn out just being "meh". That said i do have a high tolerance to B and C movies. For me to really dislike a movie it need to be very offensive and boring in term of story and characters (Black Christmas 2019) or VERY badly made up (some asylum movies...).
With this one i was watching it without looking at my phone or hoping it would end soon, chuckling a bit in some rare moments, other times just telling myself "ok thats a bit dumb..." but it was ...ok. Thats why ill be generous and give it a 6 for slightly above average. But i fully understand peoples giving it a 4 ot 5.