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Summary: Worth it if..
Review: the plot is terrible and most of the scenes are annoyingly bad, but i like this movie simply because Brendan Fehr, Simon Rex, and Kerr Smith are amazingly hott in it! if your a fan of any of those people then it's probly worth the cheap price at wal-mart, i watch it just to look at them. If your looking for an amazing vampire movie then your not going to find it in this and if you dont look Brendan Simon or Kerr then you'll probably hate this movie, if theyd used other people it would suck terribly honesty its a waste of talent..if ur looking for something good dont watch this..
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Summary: Once Again, Blame The French
Review: In a film starring Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, and a host of other actors and actresses considered eye-candy, you'd think this would be another teen/vampire/T&A rompfest. Well, there are vampires and definitely some T&A, but the "teen" element is nowhere to be found. Instead, you have a decent story about a small band of bloodsuckers headed up by one of the original badboys of immortality who is being hunted by one of his victims.
The victim, played by Brendan Fehr, thinks that the vampire Kit is the source of the virus he acquired through another vampire. According to legend, if you kill the source before you vamp out, you will be cured of what ails you. Kerr Smith plays Sean, a guy who winds up in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is thrust into the hunt when he assists Fehr's character, Nick. They find a young woman(Izabella Miko of "Coyote Ugly") who is a recent victim of Kit, and they use her as a homing beacon to draw Kit to holy ground, which is the only place that he can be killed.
Kit is played with sinister perfection by Johnathan Schaech. Schaech and his little group of vampires, which includes his lover, another female vampire, and a day driver, decide to hunt the hunters and finish them off. What follows is a standard road movie/car chase sequence that is full of explosions, nudity, gore, and a big finale.
Although it doesn't hold up well to many other vampire flicks, "The Forsaken" is worth a watch. There is plenty of T&A, but not so much that you think you're watching some late night fluff on Showtime. The violence is handled pretty good as well, though some may be turned off by the way the vampires feast. They can get pretty violent when they are feeding. If you like your vampires along the line of "Lestat," you probably won't like this movie. If "Blade" is more to your liking, you might enjoy this movie more, although there are no martial arts-induced [...] whippings. As a matter of fact, this movie reminded me a lot of "The Wraith," due to the fact that there are plenty of desert car chases.
Oh, and by the way, the Forsaken is Kit, who just happens to be one of the original eight French vampires that started all of this vampire mess in the first place. Bram Stoker would role over in his grave.
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Summary: It could've sucked worse.
Review: I bought this movie when I was on a serious vampire-story kick, and it got here as that kick was waneing. So I put off watching it, because frankly the cover looks like every other silly sex-kittens-and-bloodsuckers vamp flick out there, just done with today's teenagers instead of last decade's teenagers. I have nothing against s-k-&-b-s films, but I have to be in a specific mood to want to watch them.
Today, I decided to get off my behind (or rather, to sit *on* my behind... ), stop stalling because I was afraid of how bad it might be, and actually watch it. My expectations were very, very low. I was pleasantly surprised.
It's done fairly well - the characters mostly hold together. The bits where they go all "Natural Born Killers" with the filming are as lame as in every other film that's used them, but the rest is decently done and competently acted.
All in all, it's a pretty darn good job. They could have gone and screwed it up but they didn't. And for Hollywood, that's a major achievement.
If I say anything about the plot I might give something away, and that would actually be a shame, because there is a sort of plot and it doesn't go strictly according to the standard script. It sticks close and does involve a bunch of pretty, pimple-free early twenties kiddies wearing as little as possible but still; it manages to have a few shreds of originality. It maintains what integrity it has while conforming to the formula script of pretty kids in a bad situation with vampires.
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Summary: SCHAECH RATTLES AND ROLLS
Review: Johnathon Schaech is a great vampire. Beneath those smoldering good looks, the buff body and those mesmerizing eyes, lies an evil being not quite Christopher Lee, but still a commanding presence. Carrie Snodgress (who recently passed away) does a fine cameo role as an elderly lady who owns a business on sacred ground. Kerr Smith is effectively heroic and Brendan Fehr, while still looking a little wet behind the ears, is a convincing vampire hunter.
Having traveled cross country four times, I could empathize with the loneliness of those desert highways, so that heightened the suspense for me. There's a lot of gore, maybe even a little too much, but THE FORSAKEN tries to break ground in an oversaturated field. Director Cardone keeps the action fast and furious, and Schaech is prime vampire material.
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Summary: Two WB stars take on another different breed of vampire
Review: At the beginning of "The Forsaken" we are treated to a scene in which a naked young woman in a shower covered in blood cleans off one of her breasts. This really has nothing to do with this 2001 film beyond the symbolism of uniting blood and sex (if you think about it, the film literally makes a clean breast of it). Before we get to the actually plot of this film what we have as the chief selling point are a pair of young studs from the WB network at the top of the credits, namely Kerr Smith from "Dawson's Creek" and Brendan Fehr from "Roswell." Smith is Sean, who edits trailers in Hollywood and is now driving somebody else's Mercedes convertible across the country to attend his sister's wedding. Fehr is Nick, who seems to be just some slacker bumming a ride but is in reality much, much more. We just do not figure out what until they encounter Megan (Izabella Miko), who is acting weird at a bus stop. Not only is she the blonde from the beginning of the film, but it turns out that she has been bitten by a vampire. Nick knows this because a year ago he was bitten by the same vampire, but he has a magic drug cocktail that has stopped him from making the change. Now the guys have to save Megan from the same fate of living death. Anne Rice, P. N. Elrod, Laurell K. Hamilton and Joss Whedon have all dealt in different ways with making the vampire mythos work in more modern terms. J.S. Cardone, writer and director of "The Forsaken," tries to do the same thing but the result is something of a mess. The vampires in this movie are basically something akin to the Manson Gang, which is easy enough to grasp, but it is the new and improve rules on how you avoid turning into a vampire that really requires copious note taking, although that becomes rather pointless once we discover that one of the ways to stem the transformation is to pour buckets of ice on a half naked woman in a bathtub. The goal is ultimately to kill Kit (Jonathan Schaech), the leader of the vampire pack, because that will break the cycle (sort of convenient, huh?). But before that can happen there is plenty of blood-letting and you know that beautiful Mercedes is going to take a pounding. At least "The Forsaken" takes itself seriously, although there are times where that works to the disadvantage of the film. Kerr is passable enough in the role of the basically good guy to whom all sorts of weird things are suddenly happening, but Fehr just does not have the presence to make his role and the rest of the movie works (every time I look I him I keep thinking he should be playing the young Fox Muldar on an "X-Files" flashback). The film is bloody and gory for those who like such things, although none of it is particularly memorable. The problem is that I perked up at the idea of some new twists on the idea of the vampire, but that just called attention to the most problematic elements of the film. The really depressing part is that this is the best film I have seen this week.
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Summary: Contemporary Vampire Hunter
Review: Sean, a young film editor, is on his way across the United States to go to his sister's wedding with a Mercedes that he is delivering to the same location, where the wedding is taking place. However, a flat tired leads to Sean picking up a hitch-hiker, Nick, who seems to be a harmless young man. As the film keeps rolling, the audience finds out that Nick is a vampire hunter and before Sean expects it they are in deep trouble. Forsaken is a horror film that causes some startling moments, but fails in delivering a solid story that keeps the audience's attention throughout the film.
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