I have never seen anything that was more poorly made.
I am trying to watch all vampire movies that I can find. That is the only reason that this joke of a movie played to completion in front of me.
Much of the movie jumps to a poorly produced cartoon-mode. Whenever the movie would have required any real creativity, they put in a cartoon instead. It really looked like they couldn't figure out how to do real CGI, and they couldn't afford a decent cartoonist, so they just put in some crappy drawings and called it good.
I've seen, and even appreciated movies, that go between live film and anime style battles, but stylistic choice is not an excuse that this lousy movie can claim. If this was a stylistic choice, then all of the fighting should have followed the same style. That was not the case with this charade. What determined whether the fight scene appeared live vs. cartoon was how difficult it would have been to film it. If a fight scene was anything more than a awkward swing of a sword by an incompetent actor, then it was turned into a low quality cartoon.
It also looked like most of the actors would have been rejected in auditions for an elementary school play. Some of the other reviews that compare the acting to that of porn are way too generous.
I am trying to watch all vampire movies that I can find. That is the only reason that this joke of a movie played to completion in front of me.
Much of the movie jumps to a poorly produced cartoon-mode. Whenever the movie would have required any real creativity, they put in a cartoon instead. It really looked like they couldn't figure out how to do real CGI, and they couldn't afford a decent cartoonist, so they just put in some crappy drawings and called it good.
I've seen, and even appreciated movies, that go between live film and anime style battles, but stylistic choice is not an excuse that this lousy movie can claim. If this was a stylistic choice, then all of the fighting should have followed the same style. That was not the case with this charade. What determined whether the fight scene appeared live vs. cartoon was how difficult it would have been to film it. If a fight scene was anything more than a awkward swing of a sword by an incompetent actor, then it was turned into a low quality cartoon.
It also looked like most of the actors would have been rejected in auditions for an elementary school play. Some of the other reviews that compare the acting to that of porn are way too generous.