Blood Shot (2013)

Blood Shot: Directed by Dietrich Johnston. With Brennan Elliott, Michael Bailey Smith, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen. A notorious Middle Eastern terrorist (Dourif) is plotting a major attack on the U.S. that includes detonating a powerful nuke in the heart of Los Angeles; the only thing standing in his way is an unlikely duo formed by a mysterious vampire (Bailey Smith) and a rogue cop (Elliott) who reluctantly join forces to thwart his gang of motley terrorists before it’s too late.

“When i first saw the cover, or the french title in the video store(yes some people still rent from video stores) u0026quot;Vampire Assassinu0026quot; i knew i was in for something pretty lame and dumb. Oh well i have not rent one of those in ages, and i had a coupon for 2 at the price of 1…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie start right away and this is my major complain, its never explained why the cop is after the vampire. We are supposed to believe the cop only want to bring the vampire to justice because he kill people… which is extremely lame. Eventually they will have to team up as the synopsis mention to take down a terrorist who want to blow out a Nuke in L.A. OK this part is from the start extremely hard to believe, terrorist running freely in the US in full u0026quot;arabian looku0026quot; and all. But on top of that the leader is so caricatured you canu0026#39;t take him seriously at all.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhen it comes to other characters, the vampire is OK, he is imposing, look strong, outside the fact that he only use double pistol, you could think he is what you have in mind when you think u0026quot;vampireu0026quot;. The cop ainu0026#39;t bad, but his character is so badly introduced you have trouble caring for him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut the bad guys are just a total mess, they canu0026#39;t be believe in at all, and the whole concept of the president talking from his limo to a vampire division administrator is so whatever.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAfter that, i would say the way the movie is filmed is pretty decent, camera work is fine, blood is fine, but i am not sure if this is part of the vampire u0026quot;powersu0026quot; but when he sponge bullets, they just disappear in a little smoke explosion, not even damaging his suit, which i tough was extremely silly and just poor special effects.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the end i would say the movie is hard to like, even if you see it as a total u0026quot;nanaru0026quot; as we call them in french, which could be translated to u0026quot;a silly but fun movieu0026quot; in English. The pacing ainu0026#39;t very good, the story is, even tough not really complicatedu0026quot; hard to follow because its simply badly written, and the characters outside the vampire himself, seem way too caricatured and dumb.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the end really not a must, whatever you are a fan of vampire movies or action movies. And i saw it witch a bunch of beers… so i gave him a big chance.”