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Summary: Not bad. I feel I got my money's worth!
Review: (...)Definitely a film for fans of vampire films, noir detective dramas, and Adrian Paul. My complaint is that the near future resembles the fifties too much-- a director's choice, I know, to emphasize the resemblance to Nazis, but I felt it was a bit heavy handed. (...)See this film, even if you don't care to own it.
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY
Review: A really god awful movie! Save your money. The scenes were dark and hard to follow. The plot was terrible. I only gave it one star because Adrian Paul was in it. At least he gave the viewer something to look at. His talent was totally wasted on this bomb.
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Summary: VERY IMMAGINATIVE, BUT DEFINATELY NOT FOR EVERYONE
Review: A very different kind of vampire thriller set in a futuristic Orwellian police state where a hitherto unknown sub-culture of vampires (complete with it's own quasi-government and police officials) covertly approaches the (human) government and asks for political/legal (albiet secret) recognition. Bookeem Woodbine plays a jaded homicide detective who is teamed with the vampire nations' police representive (Adrian Paul, of Highlander fame), both of whom are given the task of finding a rouge vampire who seems intent on breaking up the possibility of vampire/human social integration. There's more to it than that, but not desiring to give the whole movie away, hopefully it will be enough to say that this was a solid and honest effort to make a vampire thriller that wasn't merely a redundant regurgitation of vampire-gets-the-stake-through-the-heart routine. Whether you'll like it or not is another question; just speaking for myself, I have to say I liked it a lot. It had a fasicnating visual texture, very good cinematography, enough action sequences to make it appealing to more mainstream audiences, convincing visual effects with the vampires, and most of all, the very versatile and erotic Bai Ling as a vampire seductress who becomes Woodbines love interest. She was definately the center-piece of the movie, providing a rich and broad range of expresion. The only real problem (for me) in this film was Woodbines character. While the vampires were given an ineresting depth of character and a tangible personna, his was little more than a guttermouthed cliche. It is possible to have a "hard-boiled detective" protagonist be convincing without being a shallow idiot. All things considered, "The Breed" will probably be a hit or miss with most people, but it certainly was a lot better than "Interview With the Vampire" or "Blade".
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Summary: great movie
Review: Adrian Paul and the others were great in this horror flick about assimiliation of the vampire population with humanity and the resulting conflict.
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: As a collector of B vampire movies, this instantly hit my top ten. The premise is nearly impossible to describe, but suffice it to say that you've never seen one quite like this before. Starring the always intense Adrian Paul as a hilariously stiff Polish vampire, and Bai Ling as... well, the same sort of outrageous, overdressed 'vamp' she always plays, this dark and weird thriller is worth a look.
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Summary: Original take on vampires!
Review: As a collector of B vampire movies, this instantly hit my top ten. The premise is nearly impossible to describe, but suffice it to say that you've never seen one quite like this before. Starring the always intense Adrian Paul as a hilariously stiff Polish vampire, and Bai Ling as... well, the same sort of outrageous, overdressed 'vamp' she always plays, this dark and weird thriller is worth a look.
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Summary: All style, no substance
Review: At the risk of becoming an unpopular reviewer, it is little wonder I had never of this movie until I caught on cable one recent night. What banality!! The movie is all style, with fantastic makeup and costumes, gorgeous bodies filling the screen, techno music, beautiful sets and locations and highly stylized camera work. In other words, it looked like a movie made by a music video director. The look of the film is sleek yet somewhat gothic but one cliche spills upon another at a laughably fast rate. A Jewish vampire, an African-American mortal (FBI agents) and one fabulously made up Asian vampire/villainess do not an original and convincing vampire movie make. I'm sure the produces were attempting to fashion a bizarre and thoroughly modern interpretation of the vampire myth, what they got instead was something so glossy that nothing memorable could possibly adhere itself to it. The script, though not horrifically bad, is, nevertheless, pedestrian and wooden. If your idea of a good movie is super trendy, shallow fashion magazine on celluloid, then this is for you. Those who enjoy some depth, even if only moderate, will find very little to enjoy here. Two stars for the superficial qualities of the film, which offers the eye and the libido some serious candy.
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Summary: Please see this movie!
Review: Dark City + The Matrix + Dracula 2000 = The Breed
If you liked any of those movies you need to see this. If you didn't like Dracula 2000 then don't worry, because the only reason that's in the equation is because without it there isn't any vampire in the aquation, whatever. Anyway the dark atmosphere and dystopic world are so helpful in creating the story. Two detectives, one human, and one vampire, must cooperate in order to find a murderous vampire during a trivial time in which vampires are revealing their existence to humans. In order for the detectives to find this murderer, they must uncover a human conspiracy to erradicate vampires, and stop the rebellios vampires from overthrowing human government. If you've ever seen 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, than you'll enjoy the scenes inside the detective building where several tranquel zen-like announcments can be heard over an intercom. One of the best vampire movies ever made.
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Summary: CARRIES A BITE
Review: Director Michael Oblowitz is to be credited for offering such a fresh and unusual twist to the vampire legend. An obvious morality tale about accepting people that are different, this vampire story focuses on the vampires who have "come out" and are taking a substitute drug instead of blood; and of the vampires who don't want to come out, and therefore want to erase manking as we know it. Typical (think X-Men); but Adrian Paul, Bokeem Woodbine and Bei Ling are mesmerizing; if Paul is "stiff" it fits into his tortured character, and he pulls it off in a sordid, campy way.
But look at some of the visuals of this sumptuos movie: the opening scene where the vampire attacks the two cops and is then shown walking the rooftops is almost "cartoonish" in its beauty, but dazzling nonetheless. Notice that in this future society, there are many anachronistic touches: they type on typewriters; they drive old cars; even the clothing is reminiscent of the forties and beyond, and doesn't vampire Cross remind you of Nosferatu? In the police station, a recorded PA voice spouts out some really weird euphuisms; the posters on their walls are intriguing; and in one bar scene, doesn't it recall vintage gangster movies?
This is what elevates this movie; it's creepy, exciting, and very very atmospheric.
Rating:
Summary: CARRIES A BITE
Review: Director Michael Oblowitz is to be credited for offering such a fresh and unusual twist to the vampire legend. An obvious morality tale about accepting people that are different, this vampire story focuses on the vampires who have "come out" and are taking a substitute drug instead of blood; and of the vampires who don't want to come out, and therefore want to erase manking as we know it. Typical (think X-Men); but Adrian Paul, Bokeem Woodbine and Bei Ling are mesmerizing; if Paul is "stiff" it fits into his tortured character, and he pulls it off in a sordid, campy way.
But look at some of the visuals of this sumptuos movie: the opening scene where the vampire attacks the two cops and is then shown walking the rooftops is almost "cartoonish" in its beauty, but dazzling nonetheless. Notice that in this future society, there are many anachronistic touches: they type on typewriters; they drive old cars; even the clothing is reminiscent of the forties and beyond, and doesn't vampire Cross remind you of Nosferatu? In the police station, a recorded PA voice spouts out some really weird euphuisms; the posters on their walls are intriguing; and in one bar scene, doesn't it recall vintage gangster movies?
This is what elevates this movie; it's creepy, exciting, and very very atmospheric.
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