Blu Ray Screencaps of Blood: The Last Vampire.
Blood: The Last Vampire already has a Manga anime release which was made in 2000, it's also available on blu ray should you wish to view it first before watching this live action film release.
I really enjoy horror/fantasy type movies so tend to overlook script defiencies more than i would for other types of movie, i found this film to be more entertaining than i thought it would be, it mixes the action and horror genres with a touch of fantasy and at 88 minutes long it never outstays it's welcome.
There are well choreographed action scenes in this movie and the highlight for me was the attack by the ninja vampires against Kato in the forest, that scene is wonderfully shot and executed.
The effects sequences are not always up to par and the digital blood is poor but it didn't get in the way of my enjoyment of the film. It might for others.
I felt the acting was generally good and Yasuaki Kurata, Gianna Jun and Britain's very own Larry Lamb all stood out. The supporting cast were fine enough and did what was asked of them.
The image quality was good but i felt there was some ringing in some scenes and i noticed what looked like black lines in some darker lit moments, i have taken a screen capture of this and converted to black and white and then brightened it so that computer users should be able to see it no matter how their display is set up, click here to view this issue.
Apart from the above issues i felt the image quality was likely representative of the look of the movie, don't expect deep inky blacks though as the film doesn't have them but i feel thats intentional, i liked a lot of the cinematography in this film.
I'm not sure what the above issue is but i noticed it on some scenes and on fade outs during the movie, incidentally this film is region coded and will only work on players which are either set for region B or multi region enabled.
As far as the sound mix goes it's interesting that you get the choice of two lossless codecs on the disc, you can choose between PCM 5.1 or DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, i did briefly compare both and i felt the DTS track for some reason was playing louder than the PCM track.
I chose the DTS codec to view the movie and i felt the mix was very good, speech was always clear, the surrounds were sometimes underused but the bass through the subwoofer was phenomenal, very deep and aggressive and i could feel the bass and i loved it.
Regarding the DTS track being louder, i am not sure if it was louder for all the speakers or whether it was just the bass channel, i have noted this on a number of DTS tracks where the bass channel appears more aggressive and deeper but in reality it's probably playing a good 10db higher than a Dolby or PCM track equivalent and thus it's not "better" it's just louder.
View blu ray screencaps below. Double click for the full HD frame.
