Nothing original.

Rating: 4/10 (19 September 2003)

I hoped this would be a really cool movie. It showed some potential. I kind of figured it wouldn't quite cut it though. It was entertaining enough to keep me awake for two hours but the plot is somewhat muddled and confusing. The movie spends most of it's time presenting stylish shots of vampires shooting werewolves and likewise. Things go boom a lot and there are some serious cliches, some guy's head gets sliced with a sword and then after he stands there for a few minutes the top of his head slides off. How many times have I seen THAT this year? The action sequences are also very confusing. The vampires and werewolves all wear similar drab grey clothing and combined with the drab grey filming and poor editing the end result is an insane jigsaw puzzle of who's killing who. Most of the time it is impossible to tell what's going on. There are huge editing/screenplay issues. Someone is credited as Michael's Girlfriend in the end credits. If you are paying close attention you will see that she is one of the bystanders killed during the first ultra stylish vampire vs werewolf action sequence. She must have been really special to him too, since he doesn't seem to care AT ALL that she's dead. He doesn't even mention her at anytime through the rest of the film.
But to sum it up, what you've got here is a whole bunch of soap opera actors playing unconvincing vampires and werewolves and a fairly bland screenplay with a lot of shooting and cliche dialogue. It was very clear to me after watching this that the filmakers' intention was simply to cash in on the goth/vampire subculture and not actually to produce a good movie. Then they figured they would throw in some cool Matrix moves. Why not? Everyone else is doing it.