This is not an horror movie ; it's a satire of vampire movie and buddy cop movie.
It's a self aware movie that plays all the tropes really well.
The story is about a self-loathing vampire hunting down terrorists. Other than that, he's a wise cracking, gunslinging vampire one-lining puns left and right will killing the bad guys or beating down the cop.
The cop is doing as much monologing as a detective in a film noir. He reminds me of Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson's character in Lethal Weapon). He's got as much punishment in this movie as any superhero in a Marvel movie. In other word, you need suspension of disbelief to enjoy the ride.
The terrorists are stereotypical, and they even says so in the movie : their plan to get to the place they want to blow up is to look like terrorist and claim they're being singled-out by islamophobic border patrol. The second part of their plan is to get bitten by the vampire in order to be able to blow themselves up over and over again.
Let's be honest... It's not a cinema masterpiece, but it does not deserve a rating of 3 ! My guess is that people had other expectation, such as a serious horror movie or something like that.
But it's not... It's really a buddy cop movie where one of the guy is a vampire. I put a rating of 10 to offset the misinterpretation of that movie, but it's more like a 7 :
It's a self aware movie that plays all the tropes really well.
The story is about a self-loathing vampire hunting down terrorists. Other than that, he's a wise cracking, gunslinging vampire one-lining puns left and right will killing the bad guys or beating down the cop.
The cop is doing as much monologing as a detective in a film noir. He reminds me of Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson's character in Lethal Weapon). He's got as much punishment in this movie as any superhero in a Marvel movie. In other word, you need suspension of disbelief to enjoy the ride.
The terrorists are stereotypical, and they even says so in the movie : their plan to get to the place they want to blow up is to look like terrorist and claim they're being singled-out by islamophobic border patrol. The second part of their plan is to get bitten by the vampire in order to be able to blow themselves up over and over again.
Let's be honest... It's not a cinema masterpiece, but it does not deserve a rating of 3 ! My guess is that people had other expectation, such as a serious horror movie or something like that.
But it's not... It's really a buddy cop movie where one of the guy is a vampire. I put a rating of 10 to offset the misinterpretation of that movie, but it's more like a 7 :
- Lethal Weapon as a rating of 7.6 and it was a big blockbuster
- The budget was smaller, so it goes with the special effects
- The acting is top notch : Brad Dourif is amazing as always ! The actors are having fun with the script, no performance seems forced
- The pacing is ok, the editing is ok
- Their does not seems to be to many inconsistencies, or they can be excused because the movie is self-aware (such as who's keeping track of the vampire to inform the cop in the beginning of the movie ??)