Cartoonish--and that's kinda the point.

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 2001)

The movie itself is almost laughable as cinema--with hilarious camera shots of dramatic stances that would make Stallone blush in "Cobra". But that's kind of the point I think--when making a vampire martial arts live action comic, departure from reality is what it's all about. The film making is sufficiently stylized, and the first ten minutes or so at a vampire rave is brilliantly accomplished, using a pumped up remix of New Order's Confusion while beautfiul Eurotrash vampires mash and grind. And throwing in ex-porn star Traci Lords is inspired in a cameo.
There are two major flaws in the flick: It's fine for overgrown adolescents in their college years and beyond (hey, we need entertainment too), but the violence and silly vulgarity (this has gratuitious use of the word f*** instead of gratuitous nudity, personally, I prefer the latter). The other flaw is that they can't quite bring it all together at the end, it just doesn't work. On the DVD, they added a partially completed alternate ending that they felt also didn't work, but unfortunately the one they came up with was worse.